White-Collar Criminals: Tanya Brillembourg and David Brillembourg Founded the Brillembourg Capriles Group in Puerto Rico After Embezzling Over $400 Million from the Chinese Fund
The matriarchs of the Añez-Brillembourg clan, Tanya Brillembourg and Mercedes Añez, are the key figures behind operators Roberto Añez and David Brillembourg, recently implicated in corruption in Venezuela.
“According to attached documents, they have defrauded Venezuela of over one billion dollars through the Chinese fund and PDVSA-Crypto in the last decade,” SextoVisión reported in a message shared via its X account.
After the collapse of the Brilla Bank financial group in Dominica—where, with her mother Adelaida (better known as “Tanya”) Capriles de Brillembourg at the helm, they defrauded Venezuelan savers of over 30 million dollars—Brillembourg relied on the financial group of Julio Herrera Velutini in Puerto Rico. This included Bancredito International Bank, Banvelca CA, and Brittania Financial Group, the latter no longer in existence, while Herrera Velutini faces accusations from U.S. authorities for bribing the then-governor of the island, Wanda Vázquez, who has already been found guilty. The trial against Herrera Velutini is ongoing, and he is currently under house arrest. Meanwhile, Juan Ramírez chose to separate from Brillembourg and Añez, forging ahead with the stolen funds from the trust and purchased Nodus International Bank in partnership with Tomás Niembro Concha, who, while living in the most expensive apartment in the luxuryLagasca 99 in Madrid, is under investigation by OCIF in Puerto Rico for money laundering and awaiting dissolution proceedings.
Roberto Añez, along with his brother Jorge Añez and son Aleczander Añez, has continued laundering money for Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Añez family owns the airline Avior and has utilized access to cryptocurrencies at preferential prices from Sunacrip in partnership with Joselit Ramírez, justifying their actions in terms of the airline’s needs. They have entrusted the management and coordination of all private flights and yacht charters for these corrupt “enchufados” chavistas, many of whom are currently imprisoned, to young Aleczander through MWC Charter & Concierge LLC and Miami Luxury Yacht Group Co.
The primary paymaster platform that Añez offered was in partnership with Jorge Dellan, a cousin of Leonardo González Dellan, former president of the Industrial Bank of Venezuela and sanctioned by OFAC. Thus, Añez and Dellan established another corruption scheme to launder and embezzle money from Venezuelans. After laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for businesses aligned with Tareck El Aissami and Joselit Ramírez through DL Services BV, where Jorge Dellan was the administrator, they are currently being investigated by Europol, along with their associate Roberto Añez.
Among Añez and Dellan’s largest clients in this new phase were Pedro Ferrer from Lloyd Sudamericano CA and Jesús Vergara Betancourt, the principal contractor for the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana and Venalum. According to sources close to the case, Añez and Dellan are under investigation not only by Europol but also by the Southern District of Florida’s prosecutor’s office, where they will be prosecuted for money laundering and bribery, violating the “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act” (FCPA).
