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Ex-Venezuelan Official Pleads Guilty In $1.2B Oil Co. Fraud
Law360, Miami (July 14, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT) The former legal counsel to the Venezuelan Ministry of Oil and Mining pled guilty Wednesday in Florida federal court to participating in a billion-dollar conspiracy to embezzle money from Venezuela s state-owned oil company and launder it through sophisticated false-investment schemes in the U.S. and abroad.
In a hearing before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, Carmelo Urdaneta Aqui, 47, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering related to a fraud scheme to steal $1.2 billion from Petróleos de Venezuela SA through bribery and fraud. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
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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 .