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Weekly Report - 02 August 2018 (WR-18-30)
VENEZUELA: Maduro implicated in billion-dollar corruption scheme
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is under investigation as part of a US probe into a US$1.2bn scheme to divert money from the state oil company Pdvsa into European and US bank accounts and South Florida real estate, media reports have claimed. Prospects of prosecution are very low – but the claims are a significant embarrassment for Maduro, who late last year conducted a purge of Pdvsa ostensibly to root out corruption, and who seems incapable of resolving the country’s worsening economic crisis.
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