Javier Alvarado asks former PDVSA manager to investigate

Javier Ochoa Alvarado, Venezuela’s former deputy Minister of Energy Development, has asked a judge hearing the alleged robbery of Petrolios de Venezuela (PDVSA) to admit the guilt of C எண்ணெய்sar Rincon, a former oil company official deported from Spain. States participating in bribes from US companies to protect energy deals.

In a letter to the National Court accessible to Europa Press, Alvarado’s party demanded that Rincono be called in as an investigator because, according to him, he allowed purchases of more than $ 615 million between 2009 and 2015. The indictment of Sylvester Molero, chairman of the PDVSA and commissioner of the Venezuelan state agency between 2009 and 2011 was also required. There is no detail in the complaint of the oil company that led to the investigation.

The petitions are part of an investigation by Federal Instruction No. 3, where more than two dozen individuals – individuals and law firms – are being prosecuted for alleged crimes of money laundering in Spanish territory. For commission on corruption, fraud and other crimes committed abroad.

During his trial, Alvarado insisted that Rinkan be tried because he held executive positions at PDVSA and Bariven, one of the oil company’s subsidiaries, during Judge Maria Dorton’s trial. As he said, the “signature and intervention” of this former officer is “present” in various activities that appear in practice.

In the case of Molero, he argued that his accusation was a “logical claim” because he had been Pariven’s leader for a few years included in the PDVSA complaint. Therefore, Alvarado stressed that his appearance as an investigator was necessary for a proper investigation. Within the framework of the letter, Molero promised that since he was “currently the Commissioner of the PDVSA” he could be summoned “through the practical representation of the plaintiff PDVSA”. On the state agency’s website, he appears as the commissioner who signed the last published 2016 report.

Possible “process fraud” by PDVSA

Alvarado’s defense asked Judge Dordon to request from the oil company “original documents of each of the documents involved in the case,” his initial complaint and subsequent release.

He also stressed that “all” minutes of the executive committee and the PDVSA board of directors, which were already requested in November 2020 and not yet provided by the oil company, need to be recouped from the state company.

In the remaining 27 pages, Alvarado denounced the “possible lie of multiple documents” provided by the company so far in the context of the practice.

After analyzing the documents provided for the defense case, they concluded that “perhaps we are facing a series of documents that could have been altered or falsified, therefore, before possible conduct into a practical fraud offense”.

Therefore, he referred to specific cases in which the oil company had issued documents stating that “all components should be considered as total falsification of the original”. Among other details, he highlighted possible changes in signatures and letterheads.