El Aissami mentioned the presentation to justice of the 28 transfers made by Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) during March 2012 and March 2013, a period in which four billion 850 million dollars were transferred to two funds, one in Panama and another in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
In an exchange with the press after a meeting with the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, the current head of the oil industry revealed the new evidence supports the complaint against the “corrupt Major Rafael Ramírez” in the embezzlement of almost five billion dollars.
He pointed out that after arduous investigative work to gather evidence, it was possible to dismantle and reveal a corruption plot, one of the nine cases that directly involves the former head of Oil and Energy.
There are nine corruption schemes that compromise this man “a fugitive from justice and a corrupt major”, he reiterated.
Among the new evidence, El Aissami mentioned the audits of the years 2012 and 2013 carried out by the firm KPMG.
This bandit, delinquent, corrupt and traitor, in reference to Ramírez, uses the false argument that his management was audited and even boasts that he passed all the audition tests.
Far from being a defense, he affirmed, those arguments further corroborate the perpetration of this serious crime, this mega robbery.
He explained that it is stated in a public document of the company that during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013, “PDVSA received financing in bolivars from non-financial private entities.”
This is the report that the bandit Rafael Ramírez appeals to, where he acknowledges that PDVSA received alleged financing in bolivars from non-financial private entities, remarked the also Oil Minister.
Recognizing there was a profit, means evidence of “fraud” with the use of those resources that were used for other purposes, he explained.
El Aissami explained that Ramírez and his henchmen delivered field concessions, contracts without compliance with the Venezuelan Constitution on the Hydrocarbons Law, favors that were arranged, cooked outside the legal norms and paid in commissions in accounts abroad. He stressed these are the most serious facts known, the “greatest embezzlement that has ever been committed against the state company Petróleos de Venezuela.”
We are absolutely certain that this man will pay for all these crimes and we will see him face the Venezuelan justice system, in order to cleanse PDVSA of these mafias that were “protected, constituted and directed with the complicity of Rafael Ramírez,” El Aissami said.
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