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They warn that corruption runs a “super network” with at least 9,000 actors in Venezuela.

They warn that corruption runs a “super network” with at least 9,000 actors in Venezuela.
Corruption

Inquiry conducted by the Vortex Organized Criminal Expert Foundation in conjunction with Transparency Venezuela The “super network” of corruption operates in the country, involving at least 9,000 people or companies.

Eduardo Salcedo-Albern, director of the Vortex Foundation and the Global Monitoring Organization for Transnational Criminal Networks, said during a symposium. The Voice of America The level of corruption in Venezuela is unprecedented.

He explained that Lava Jato in Brazil was considered the largest illegal financial practice in the world, involving the contacts of 1,399 people and companies. While in Venezuela, the first investigations in September 2020 allowed the probe into the corrupt practices of 5,500 individuals and companies.

By January 2021, that number had risen to 6,273, and then, now, more than 9,000 are involved and 23,000 contacts, i.e. sending or receiving resources such as information, money or assistance.

Colombian philosopher and political scientist Lava Jato insisted that the case did not reach a billion dollars. In Venezuela, only one of the 121 cases executed in the judiciary has already exceeded $ 1.2 billion.

“This number continues to rise. Every day, new and more trials are being launched against Venezuelan public officials and companies around the world for unprecedented levels of corruption and money laundering,” he said.

It started in the Chavez government

Salceto-Alberon said VOA The beginning of the “super network” scandal in Venezuela is thanks to the state’s massive oil revenues during the administration of former President Hugo Chavez Frias, but it has also led to a dramatic evolution in the Madurista administration.

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He acknowledged that their numbers were not enough to defeat Nicolas Maduro’s government. Corruption Network.

“The sums taken during the Maduro and Hugo Chavez governments are absolutely absurd. They are libel cases in all fields, “he added.

Impacts on the population

Jesús Urbina, Venezuela’s leader on transparency in the Zulia region, pointed out that this level of corruption has had a major impact on the population, thus deteriorating basic services, fundamental rights and the quality of life of citizens.

He explained that there are 121 judicial proceedings within Venezuela and abroad for various types of corruption. Of them, 74 are being investigated in the same South American country; 51, in the United States; 15, in Argentina; 8, in Spain; 5, in Ecuador and Mexico; And 4, in Brazil.

Those lawsuits alone cover $ 67,883 million and play a key role in the “super network” of 362 people and 212 companies, 142 of which have already been approved in various countries, such as the United States and Spain, he stressed.

Salcedo-Albarán, for his part, warned that there were opaque causes for corruption in Venezuela and that its changes and consequences were catastrophic.

According to the Corruption Intelligence Index released by Transparency International in January, Venezuela is considered the most corrupt country in the United States, surpassing only Somalia, Syria and Sudan in the world.

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