The BBC reported on 13th September that a judge in Andorra has charged 29 Venezuelans with corruption – among them 2 former deputy ministers. Prosecutors allege that they were part of a network of corrupt officials who received $2.3 billion in bribes from companies in return for lucrative contracts with Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, and they allegedly hid the money in the Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) bank – which was closed after it was named as a “primary money-laundering concern”. Those charged includes Diego Salazar, the cousin of former oil minister Rafael Ramírez, as well as 2 men who served as deputy energy ministers in the government of Hugo Chávez – Nervis Villalobos and Javier Alvarado.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45507588?src=ilaw
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