(EFE)
“In the case of Pdvsa and these mafias (…) that we are hitting in all its mechanisms, we are going to see it, we are going to fully cleanse Pdvsa of all these mechanisms, of all these atrocities, of all this people who steal money from the people, with draconian measures, of restructuring at the highest level,” said the head of state.
Maduro reported that he had “personally conducted” a series of investigations to “dismember” the “corruption mafias that have become entrenched in important sectors.”
During a meeting with the national leadership of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), broadcast by the state channel VTV, Maduro reported that he had “personally conducted” a series of investigations to “dismember” the “corruption mafias that have become entrenched in important sectors”, including the oil sector, as well as the judicial and political sectors.
“(It is) an investigation that has taken weeks and that, personally, I have carried out, with the active collaboration of the Attorney General’s Office and all its bodies,” he said.
He indicated that, during the first stage of this “direct operation against corruption”, “important businessmen, very important managers, senior officials of State institutions (and) deputies” have been captured.
Given these recent investigations into alleged “serious” acts of corruption, also in PDVSA, the Minister of Oil, Tareck El Aissami, resigned from his position on Monday, “with the purpose of fully supporting, accompanying and backing this process.”
At the moment, the arrest of at least four public officials is known, including the now former head of the National Superintendence of Cryptoactives (Sunacrip) Joselit Ramírez, as well as two judges and a Chavista mayor, for being involved in alleged acts of administrative corruption, as confirmed by VTV this Monday.
Regarding that councilor, the Chavista mayor of the Santos Michelena municipality of Aragua state, Pedro Hernández, Maduro assured this Monday that he had ties to a gang dedicated to committing homicides and drug trafficking.
“It has been fully verified in the investigations his direct links with the criminal’s gang, the murderer alias Rabbittheir multiple ties, their businesses, (it’s) an incredible thing,” he said during the same meeting.
The president maintained that Hernández was coordinating “with one of the most wanted criminals, number one public enemy of peace and stability for the Aragonese people.”
The president maintained that Hernández was coordinating “with one of the most wanted criminals, number one public enemy of peace and stability of the Aragonese people, criminal, drug trafficker, murderer aka El Conejo.”
Last February, the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (Cicpc) announced a reward of one million dollars in exchange for information about El Conejo, whose gang “carried out attacks on police and military commandos” in the Las Tejerías sector, Santos Michelena municipality.
The Public Ministry reported this Sunday that it will investigate the group of public officials detained by the Anti-Corruption Police who “appear involved, allegedly, in serious acts of corruption.”
The Anti-Corruption Police, created in 2014, asked the Prosecutor’s Office on Friday to prosecute a group of citizens who “exercised functions” in public power and who “could be involved in serious acts of administrative corruption and embezzlement.”
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