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USA Investigates US $ 3 billion laundering via PDVSA for Iran

In a report published by Bloomberg this Thursday, December 8, it is read that the United States Attorney's Office is investigating a US $ 3 billion laundering diverted to Iran through Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.

"An engineer from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA placed a stack of documents on the table and was subjected to questioning by three investigators from the New York County District Attorney's office for two days," reads the note .

"The official flew from Venezuela through Curacao in a commercial connection and then took a private flight, to cover his tracks," he continues.

In this way, the report of Bloomberg indicates how this Venezuelan, accompanied by another businessman, Martin Rodil, gave information that showed a huge diversion of large capitals from Venezuela to Iran. To do this the Venezuelans resorted to a strategy to prevent the United States from realizing what would constitute a violation of sanctions imposed by North America to the Asian country.

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"The engineer and his documents have been central to a case that investigators have been pursuing for five years: the exchange of millions of dollars of PDVSA through US, Swiss and Iranian banks, to avoid sanctions," explains the media "The investigators suspected that PDVSA had laundered the funds through heavily inflated housing construction contracts with Iranian companies."

On the other hand, Venezuelan businessman Rodil also provided several documents that "revealed that PDVSA had financed and managed at least three contracts with Iranian construction companies, worth more than US $ 2.3 billion."