Ex-Venezuelan lawyer pleads guilty to accepting millions for government loan deals Jay Weaver, Miami Herald
A former top lawyer in Venezuela’s oil ministry who has been helping U.S. authorities drill deeper into a $1.2 billion money-laundering case fueled by government corruption pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Wednesday almost one year after he surrendered.
Carmelo Urdaneta Aqui, the former legal counsel to Venezuela’s Ministry of Oil and Mining who had sneaked across the border with Colombia en route to Miami, is the fourth defendant to plead guilty in the massive case. Five other defendants remain fugitives.
Urdaneta was accused of accepting tens of millions in bribes along with other officials in the state-owned oil company known as PDVSA from wealthy business people who in turn made highly profitable loan deals with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government .
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