July 25, 2024

Ex-Venezuela Official Flees to Aid U.S. in Corruption Probe

Capture from US DoJ

Carmelo Urdaneta Aqui, a onetime legal counsel to the country’s powerful oil ministry, will appear in a Miami federal courthouse to face money laundering charges, according to a person familiar with the matter. He is expected to be arraigned as soon as Monday on the charges, which were brought against him and several other well-connected Venezuelans in 2018, according to a person briefed on the discussions. By Sridhar Natarajan and Tom Schoenberg. Full Text-> Bloomberg

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