Region: Venezuela

Carlos Enrique Urbano Fermín was sentenced to five years of probation and 120 days of intermittent confinement.

24 May 2022

The UK’s National Crime Agency has served PetroSaudi’s lawyers with an arrest warrant seeking around $300 million that was allegedly stolen from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

29 November 2021

18 October 2021

11 August 2021

15 July 2021

A Venezuelan businessman accused of helping the country’s former vice president traffic narcotics has launched a legal challenge against US sanctions that he says have devastated his business operations and reputation.

30 June 2021

A federal judge rejected a restitution bid made by Venezuela’s state oil company even though the request was made on behalf of the country’s interim government – not Maduro’s administration.

21 June 2021

Edoardo Orsoni received three years’ probation after providing “substantial assistance” to the DOJ’s investigation into corruption at PDVSA’s joint ventures.

21 April 2021

The businessman pleaded guilty in the US to paying off a Venezuelan official to protect his companies from prosecution concerning a corruption investigation into PDVSA’s joint ventures.

20 April 2021

A former Citgo official had been cooperating with the US government’s investigation into Venezuelan corruption and was set to testify at the trial of an ex-colleague, recently unsealed court records show.

06 April 2021