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US Accuses Venezuela Oil Company of $2 Bn Money Laundering Scheme
March 13, 2015
https:// www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/us-investigates-2-bn-money-laundering-scheme-by-venezuela-oil-company/
< In a March 10 press release, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) stated that a high-level manager at the Andorran bank Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) created front companies and financial products to siphon off money from PDVSA. In total, the BPA processed $2 billion in PDVSA funds as part of the scheme, according to FinCEN.
< …In January, a Venezuelan defector claimed that PDVSA airplanes were used for drug smuggling, and that the oil company laundered the proceeds. Authorities have also arrested a PDSVA executive and an official in Venezuela’s oil ministry this year on corruption charges…
< What’s more, clients associated with Venezuela have nearly $15 billion stashed in Swiss HSBC bank accounts, more than double the amount held by individuals connected to any other Latin American country…