In a 2015 report by the United States Department of State, "There were credible reports that Venezuela maintained a permissive environment that allowed for support of activities that benefited known terrorist groups."[46] New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau stated that while El Aissami was head of ONIDEX, Venezuela's passport and naturalization agency, he provided passports to Hamas and Hezbollah members. He also stated that it was possible that El Aissami was recruiting Arab Venezuelans to train under Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.[21] Joseph Humire, executive director of SFS, states that "Tareck’s network is less ideological and more of a service provider … It’s not so much built on an ideological affinity to anybody, but who wants to pay to play."[6

Pay to play

Passports

Drugs

Money laundering

http:// www.businessinsider.com/us-sanctions-venezuela-vice-president-drug-charges-2017-2

At the tail end of his presidential campaign Donald Trump adopted a hardline stance on the Venezuela, but his team wasn't the driving force behind this round of sanctions, the investigation for which began under Obama.

https:// www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-sanctions-venezuelan-vice-president-as-drug-kingpin/2017/02/13/5e67fdfd-645e-489a-a435-93458730ca99_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.07b069dc9a18

http:// www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99625/fraud-probe

So that's how the food prices were jacked up

https:// www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/as0005.aspx

Lists the companies involved…

He also facilitated, coordinated, and protected other narcotics traffickers operating in Venezuela.  Specifically, El Aissami received payment for the facilitation of drug shipments belonging to Venezuelan drug kingpin Walid Makled Garcia.  El Aissami also is linked to coordinating drug shipments to Los Zetas, a violent Mexican drug cartel, as well as providing protection to Colombian drug lord Daniel Barrera Barrera and Venezuelan drug trafficker Hermagoras Gonzalez Polanco.  Los Zetas, Daniel Barrera Barrera, and Hermagoras Gonzalez Polanco were previously named as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers by the President or the Secretary of the Treasury under the Kingpin Act in April 2009, March 2010, and May 2008, respectively. 

http:// www.infodio.com/141113/who/is/tareck/el/aissami

On the phone with this link, it displays poorly but there is mention of assets being held.in various banks including HSBC and also wells fargo.

Wells Fargo would be curious if the fake accounts created had anything to do with Tareck and his operations.

Tareck et al…

Lastly though it appears there are several people named Ashraf Ahmed…

Could it be that the one who is President of Pacific Petroleum Investment Corp. (Tareck linked front co.) from infodio link previous, one in the same as the Ashraf Ahmed that works.for Wells.Fargo?

Further, Makled claims to have information on Chavez's help to Hezbollah and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups operating in the Venezuelan soil. Makled stated in an interview that Hezbollah is "absolutely" active in Venezuela. He also has information on the flights between Venezuela and Teheran – a serious source of concern for the US.

As the Washington Post puts it: "The Obama administration is about to lose an extraordinary opportunity to prosecute one of the world's biggest drug traffickers. It will fail to break up a network that annually smuggles hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States. And it will miss delivering a devastating blow to the most dedicated U.S. adversary in Latin America, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez."

https:// www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2041/hizballah-in-venezuela