United States follows the search for the opaque red that has traded millions of Venezuelan crude barrels across the planet. The Treasury Department has convened this March the financial assets of three central figures in the tram: the Italian Alessandro Bazzoni, the brother Phillip Apikian and the Venezuelan Francisco D’Agostino. An investigation of EL PAÍS and the portal Armando.info The last week has passed since the three empresses, now sanctioned, have been clapped in the tramway that has been held by Colombian Alex Saab, as testified by Nicolás Maduro. This angle has been confirmed by the authorities now.
Casa Blanca follows the path of the sanctions from May of the past year. The consortium Saab Orchestra, in agreement with the Treasury, has approved the PDVSA crossroads in terms of market prices and collects transport and finds miles of Venezuelan costs in radar operations. As details of the investigation published by this diary, the avoidance embargo documents include the number of the Venezuelan petrol to remove the embargo imposed by the United States in Venezuela from 2017, which is used by a team of intermediaries and companies in particular America, Europe and Asia. The petroleum consortium, which is newly white in Washington, is concentrating 40% of PDVSA’s monthly exports.
The new package of sanctions included in the blacklisted list of the Department of the Treasury has six oil leaflets and 14 companies, all related to Bazzoni and its societies. Although it has been accused of having a corner with Venezuelan petrol, Bazzoni has a long history of negotiations with PDVSA and is an shareholder of Elemento LTD, a company in Malta with energetic interests in Venezuela since 2017. It is one of the companies it has sanctioned , together with branches of Malta, Panama and the United Kingdom. In this company, the Italian emperor shares company with the Venezuelan D’Agostino, courtesy of the deputy opposition leader Henry Ramos Allup.
Apikian is another important company of Bazzoni and is due to Swissoil Trading, a company that has also been the subject of the most recent sanctions. The Bazzoni consortium, with a strong presence of international energy market enterprises, has concentrated on commercializing the Venezuelan crude in the Orient of the Near East and Asia, all over China, Malaysia and Singapore.
“Those who facilitate the intentions of Maduro’s illegitimate regime to overthrow the sanctions imposed by the United States contribute to the corruption consumed in Venezuela,” said Steven Mnuchin, head of the State Treasury. “The United States has agreed to pursue a decision to allow the abuse of Maduro’s regime against Venezuela’s natural resources,” he said in a statement.
It is Washington’s ultimate intention to make money economically with Maduro, which has produced hours since Donald Trump took over the presidency. The first wave to move the PDVSA petroleum in June 2020, when the Foreign Activation Control Officer (OFAC) announced a series of operations that were referred to as “humanitarian aid”, implicating the food exchange and primary necessities for raw material. The true quadrants are small to small in the second level and the authorities calculate that the operations will exceed 200 million euros. On that occasion, Washington fired Saab and Joaquín Leal, a 28-year-old Mexican businesswoman, as well as two corporate companies in Mexico: Libre Aordo and Schlager Business Group.
The sanctions do not slow down Venezuela’s oil spill, despite embargo. As a result of the second half of last year, the Bazzoni paper has been the most relevant tram, as well as the collection of works by its companies and the distribution of embargoes to new interested players, with companies registered in Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Leal and Bazzoni are socios. One month before being sanctioned by the United States, the Mexican emperor was looking to buy my five million petroleum barrels, millions of gasoline barrels and other millions of Mexican oil barrels (Pemex).
The offer was made by a number of Promoters del Fomento, a company established in Mexico. Leal was due to 50% of the company and Bazzoni, of the other meeting, according to the documents and the two access to the PAIS and Armando.info. Swissoil, including, has extended a recommendation card for Fomento Promoters to include the Mexican petrol contract. “Business deals are concentrated on high-density petroleum transactions, as well as maritime transactions in Asia and the Near East,” reads the document, which states that companies are trading more than $ 100 million each. trimester. This card is owned by Apikian, Director of Swissoil and, at the same time, Fomento Promoters. El traato, sondeverbod, no se concretó.
Although the Venezuelan Governor did not respond to the requests for comment following the publication of the investigation, he was informed by the Maduro Administration and stated that an agreement had been reached and that the lack of clarity of the contracts had been clarified. Venezuela to negotiate any imposition imposed by the United States. Bazzoni y Leal tampoco dieron una repuesta. Saab, detained in Cape Verde since last June, is in the hope of concluding an extradition petition to the United States.