It’s quite frustrating to read so-called “exclusive” news about corruption in Venezuela from outlets like the Miami Herald. They report poorly, provide little information, and distort facts. They seem to have no idea who was involved, who approved what, when, and so forth. Now it turns out that Tamara Adrian – also from the party of #ChavezdeNaiguatá – supposedly approved the $4.5 billion scheme orchestrated by the Oberto Anselmi brothers in partnership with Rafael Ramirez at PDVSA. We have stated, and reiterate, that this scheme was approved thanks to the efforts of Alejandro Betancourt and Francisco Convit, who sent their trusted aide (Nervis Villalobos) to “sell” the idea to Ramirez, earning them hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.
Therefore, it’s not just the $1.2 billion scheme that links Betancourt and Convit with Gorrin in the thefts from PDVSA; it also includes the $4.5 billion scheme from the Oberto Anselmi brothers, as demonstrated by the documents from EFG Bank that I will provide below (I also have documents, such as those from Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique, showing the transfer of millions from the Oberto’s Welka Limited account to Calandra and Banstead, two companies controlled by Convit and Betancourt). P.S. You won’t read any of this in the Miami Herald…
Adrian’s only contribution was to provide a legal opinion for a hefty cut. But Adrian isn’t the only one close to Guaidó selling dubious legal opinions to criminals like the Oberto Anselmi brothers: Guaidó’s newly appointed attorney general, Ignacio Hernandez, also sold a “legal opinion” to Francisco Morillo, Helsinge, Trafigura, Glencore, and other criminal organizations that have been plundering PDVSA for years. Has anyone heard #ChavezdeNaiguatá mention this?