The gigantic cake of public works offered by the Large Volume only were chinese companies. Firms that flocked to the bidding of the Government of Venezuela. The development was framed in a plan conceived in 2007. The two countries signed then the agreement to Fund Binational Cooperation. China granted a loan to Venezuela through the China Development Bank (CDB) and contributed two-thirds. The Bank of Economic and Social Development (Bandes) was in charge of managing the funds. A great plan to modernize Venezuela. And a wonderful opportunity for guys like Salazar.
And is that Salazar was not an entrepreneur any more. The executive of the insurance is cousin of Rafael Ramirez, who was minister of Energy and Petroleum of the south american country between 2004 and 2012 and was president of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the largest public company in the country. And the judge of the andorran Canòlic Mingorance has just revealed that Salazar contacted with chinese companies to provide awards in exchange for kickbacks. It served as the first secretary of the embassy of Venezuela in Beijing, Luis Enrique Tenorio. To hide their profits, Tenorio created a panamanian company, Phomphien Corporation, and opened an account in the BPA Andorra.
the secretary of the embassy in Beijing assisted Salazar in the plot
Salazar was arrested a year ago and is a prisoner in Caracas.
The circuit Venezuela-China-Andorra worked to perfection. Highland Assets, the company after that which is hid Salazar and a co-worker, signed an agreement with the chinese company Camc Engineering for the the advise in the obtaining of contracts millionaires who licitaba the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, especially PDVSA and Corpoelec, in the context of the wave of works that were offered in the Big Volume.
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The contract was confidential until it fell into the hands of the judge Mingorance. The magistrate has used the text to support part of the indictment and process to Salazar for money laundering. The document stated that if the chinese managed to works by value of 176 million euros, Highland Assets would receive a 10 percent net volume of business of Camc Engineering. “It is a contract of results completely abnormal in the consulting sector, where the source of the consideration is not the reporting or attendance, but awarded the contract,” says a recent car of the judge of andorra.
After the signing of the agreement, the chinese company began to receive awards. The first, the construction of the electric generation plant of The Watcher that brought the contest to the public electricity venezuelan Corpoelec. And the account andorran Salazar with his panamanian society Highland Assets received the first payment of 31 million euros as a “comprehensive advice for the implementation of the project of construction of the thermoelectric plant El Vigía”.
From accounts in the BPA Andorra paid bribes to officials of PDVSA
For each work awarded, I came to the account of andorran a new payment. One million dollars (882.591 euros) for the project of the delta of the Orinoco river; $ 400,000 (353.072 euros) by the river Guarico; 600,000 (a 529.610 euros) and one million dollars (882.591 euros) by the Orinoco river; three million (2,6 eur) for the projects of the Factory, Smutty, Piritu Becerrra, güvenilir bahis siteleri Delta of Orinoco, and Guarico. Between 2011 and 2012, the blasting of millions not stopped. And amounted to us $ 106 million (93,5 euros)
At the time that the 11 accounts of Salazar in Andorra engordaban with figures in the millions, from the same began the irrigation of bribes to senior venezuelan officials. All, in the eyes of the officers of the BPA. The executives of the bank andorran no questions were asked about the succulent activity of the venezuelan entrepreneur who helped you build your network of panamanian companies.
The business of Great Volume, is divided among several chinese companies that Salazar and his co-worker Luis Mariano Rodriguez signed similar contracts. China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) was the construction of the power station emergency in the state of Zulia and rewarded Salazar with a payment of us $ 55 million (or 48.5 euros). Rodriguez earned 9.5 million dollars (8,3 euro). The money went to the account of andorran society Dutch Investments and Consulting.
The firm Sinohydro Corp. Ltd sealed with PDVSA construction by 315 million from the central of La Cabrera. Five days before, the panamanian society of Salazar had signed a contract with Francisco Jimenez Villarroel, manager of the office of PDVSA in China, to help asian companies to enter the venezuelan market. The judge points out that Jimenez was lacking then there’s no structure to deliver these supposed services. The chinese company was not long in transferring $ 50 million (44,1 euros) to the account of Salazar and Eudomario Carruyo, then chief financial officer of PDVSA, he received in your account the EPS 7 million dollars (6.1 million euros)
The flow of payments to millionaires in the Great Volume was not stopped. New commissions by Cabrera, for the project of Agricultural Comprehensive Pajuey and Santo Domingo High Plain. And new chinese companies that filled of million accounts andorran Salazar and his co-workers. As the signature manufacturing of buses Yutong Hongkong Ltd., that he transferred us $ 11 million (9.7 euros); the oil company Shandong Kerui Petroleum, which will envíó 17 million (15 euros).
Salazar declared in 2015 in Andorra before the judge who has now discovered their most hidden secrets. He said that it was the chinese authorities that they had “the power to decide which companies were doing the projects.” Their arguments did not prevent that was tried last September, along with 27 other people accused of plunder 2,000 million euros of PDVSA, the jewel in the crown of the Latin american country. Among the defendants are Nervis Villalobos, and Javier Alvarado, exviceministros Power of Hugo Chavez.
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Payment millionaires to executives of the state oil company venezuelan
The research of the judge andorran Canòlic Mingorance has uncovered the suspicious payments that were some of the main responsible of the public company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and its affiliates. It is the case of Ramón Arias Lanz, former president of PDVSA Engineering and Construction that had an account in the Banking Privada d’andorra (BPA) on behalf of the society instrumental White Snake Properties. Between 2011 and 2012, the count of Arias, fed by three transfers. One of $ 300,000 (265.545 euros) and two of five million dollars each (8.8 euros). All came from the account of the society’s High Advisory and Consulting Ltd, Luis Mariano Rodríguez, chief financial officer of Diego Salazar and for the researchers is of course a “straw” buyer. Luis Abraham Bastidas Ramirez, a cousin of Rafael Ramírez Carreño, and manager of the department of logistics and general services of the state-owned oil venezuelan, opened his account in the BPA. With the help of the managers of the bank, he set up a panamanian company, Tellancourt S. A. In the account associated with the same received two transfers from the company of Luis Mariano Rodríguez of $ 600,000 (531.057 euros) and 2.800.000 dollars (2.4 million euros). Both Arias as Bastidas they justified their income with alleged contracts of consultancy with the company of Rodriguez. Contracts for researchers are fictitious.
