Venezuelan authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of influential ex-oil minister Tareck El Aissami, who had resigned from his post last year amid a corruption scandal at state oil company PDVSA.
"We have managed to reveal the direct participation and consequent arrest" of El Aissami, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said, adding that charges would be announced "in the next few hours."He resigned in March 2023 amid a corruption scandal over irregularities in the management of funds from oil
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The man responsible for running Venezuela s oil industry the one that pays for virtually everything in the troubled country, from subsidized food to ridiculously cheap gas has quit amid investigations into alleged corruption among officials in various parts of the government.