Banker Gabriel Jiménez also pleads guilty in Federal Court of the USA
A former Hugo Chávez government official and a Venezuelan banker pleaded guilty to money laundering in a $ 1 billion bribery scheme, federal prosecutors in the United States said on Tuesday.
Alejandro Andrade and Gabriel Jiménez Aray plead guilty to money laundering in the form of a billion dollars in bribes.
A former Hugo Chávez government official and a Venezuelan banker pleaded guilty to money laundering in a $ 1 billion bribery scheme, federal prosecutors in the United States said on Tuesday. Alejandro Andrade Cedeño and Gabriel Arturo Jiménez Aray accepted their guilt months ago, but their cases remained secret, Miami federal prosecutors said in a press release, according to La Patilla.
Now Jiménez appears involved in the case that follows the US Attorney’s Office to other Venezuelans, such as former treasurer Alejandro Andrade, banker Matthias Krull and businessman Raúl Gorrín, who among other accusations, would have used a bank in the Dominican Republic for washing activities of money.
Jiménez was vice president of Banco Peravia, in the Dominican Republic until 2014, when his executives were accused of fraud by the District Attorney’s Office of the Dominican Republic National District. Banco Peravia was intervened by the Superintendency of Banks of that country for alleged fraud, illicit enrichment and money laundering. Jimenez then fled the Dominican Republic to the United States.
