Three Petroecuador employees involved in the millionaire scheme of sobriety related to Gunvor, following the FBI’s denunciation in EE. UU. | Politics | Notice

He does not reveal his identities, only his quotes like # 1, # 2 and # 3. The FBI agent, the state witness James Kelley, knows who he is, as far as he knows the period of his petroecuadorian duties, his bank accounts and cómo participates in the supuesto scheme of sobornos that llegaría to $ 22 million. His base hearing on the open investigation against Raymond Kohut, the executive of Gunvor that last March confessed to his participation in the electorate ahead of a New York state court.

In more than five pages, the agent describes the tram of sobriety by the one the crude crucified by Petroecuador to other Asian state companies, as part of the extermination debtors’ term, terminated by one of the world’s commercial masters, Gununuvoras with seat in Ginebra. Serian $ 5,400 million of prastamos guaranteed with barrels of crude, dijo el speurder.

Kelley investigated the conspiracy with the help of two witnesses who were found guilty in the United States; Kohut himself, who made phone calls and meetings with his accomplices, as well as multiple documents like WhatsApp contracts, letters and messages, business records and bank accounts. Kelley, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), presented his statement in August last year, saying it was only publicly heard from the Kohut confession earlier.

The agent specified that the Officer of Petroecuador # 1 had a relationship with the commercialization of the petroleum and the administration of the contracts between 2010 and 2017, the Officers # 2 and # 3 of 2017 until the month of August 2020, when he presented his statement.

Following Kelley’s relationship, in addition to Petroecuador’s and Kohut’s high officials, Gunvor’s executives were of Spanish origin and managed the Gunvor branches in Singapore and the Bahamas. They are summed up by “consultants” ecuatorianos. Consultant # 1 is quoted as the Citizen of Ecuador, the United States and Spain. And the second, the first of its kind, like the city of Ecuador and Spain, and like the exquisite Gunvor. In a posterior writing of the Fiscal of EE. UU. are also listed in the gas and oil oil companies located in Asia, without identification.

The detective signaled that the Ecuadorian consultants would create companies based in Panama and in the British Virgin Islands and manejaban various bank accounts, including in New York, to work on the costs of the Panamanian auxiliary railway workers su negotiation with Petroecuador, assured the FBI agent.

The diner salió of one of the world petroleum mayors, Gunvor, that Kelley cites as “Commercialization Company” in its denunciation for its identity is publicly known and has been reconciled by the group Gunvor, which is cooperating with the Justice of Estados United. The agent related to the fact that Gunvor’s money was used in the payday loan of a branch in Singapore, which sent to the accounts of the consultants in Switzerland, Panama and the Cayman Islands, justified by false consultancy contracts; one received these payments, the money was distributed to the three employees of Petroecuador.

“In total, Consultant # 1 and Consultant # 2 are motivated to be paid for offenses and payments and the La Compañía Comercializadora for a total of $ 22 million per ecuatorianos y otros function”, including the three Petroecuador officials, Kelley summed up in denunciation. Kohut’s confession has not yet been submitted to the state judicial system.

The squirrels

In view of the so-called “sobriety and money laundering schemes”, the detective related to the news since 2009, Petroecuador has negotiated various contracts with state companies for crude entities that guarantee liability. In effect, Petroecuador’s production has been used to guarantee the external debt countermeasures of the Government and is called “petroleum prevention”. In addition to securing the cross-border, Ecuador, on sale, it pays an 8% interest rate on banks, in its Chinese majority, as published by UNIVERSO in December 2017.

Gunvor “helped secure approximately $ 5,400 million in financing guaranteed by the cross of state entities to Petroecuador in agreement with the contracts”, added.

According to Kelley, during 2012 and 2019, Gunvor will deposit $ 70 million in the bank accounts of the “consultants” who promote the scheme of sobriety, the $ 22 million bills will be sent to the accounts of Ecuadorian officials and others, including the three of Petroecuador.

Since 2012, Raymond Kohut and the Consultants have agreed that Consultant # 1 will pay the surgeons to the Ecuadorian officials, among others, to ensure that Gunvor and others obtain the negotiations with Petroecuador. From time to time, Gunvor celebrates agreements with state-owned enterprises to sell Petroecuador’s products and the officials involved in these agreements, according to the FBI detective.

To promote the scheme and clear the money, the consultants signed consultations with the Singapore branch of Gunvor, which agreed to pay a commission for each barrel exchanged. Based on these agreements, invoices issued by the Singapore and Bahamas branches pay consultants at New York bank accounts. Posteriormente también se enviaron giros a Islas Caimán. In fact, the consultants paid for the staff and the staff. As its master, Kelley cites some examples in his statement dated 2017 and July 2019.

In 2015, consultants and Kohut decided that the Canadian should also receive part of the money and transfer $ 2.4 million to the accounts of Gunvor’s executives. Communicates with staff corridors and uses codes to refer to employees.

The conversations started

As of 2019 and with the excuse of debating disagreements over ten years against the employees of the Department of Compliance of Gunvor, Raymond Kohut arranged telephone calls and meetings with the Consultants and the Grabo. Kelley quotes some of these dialogues that are set in Spanish.

In a telephone conversation, held on February 6 of this year, Kohut signaled to Consultant # 1 that he should not “tell the world about the payments” made to the employees of Petroecuador, to the Department of Compliance of Gunvor. And the Consultant found that one of Kohut’s jefes knew the identity of one of the companions.

A second meeting was held at a restaurant in Coral Gables (Miami) on February 18 and Kohut met with consultants. In the conversation – following Kelley’s statement – he referred to Kohut’s wife and said he did not know about the payment. The Consultant # 1 signaled, “I do not know what I mean by what we do in … O sea … a quién pagamos!”. In the same conversation, Kohut indicated that another Gunvor executive also “knows all” about his siblings and said he never discussed the topic with his colleague.

Another meeting, not to be missed, took place at Consulter # 1’s house in Miami recently between the three men and Officer # 1, to talk about the contracts.

The order of detention against Kohut, of Canadian origin, took place on September 21st. However, following the April 6th anniversary of its confession, it issued a $ 2.2 million embargo order. I’m currently running the space of a month to cancel $ 1 million. For 68 years, Kohut has worked as an Independent agent and contractor for a Gunvor branch.

Gunvor’s Director of Public Relations, Seth Pietras, assured this Diario that Kohut is not working for the company and that the Group is collaborating with the United States Justice. On the Gunvor website there is a section in Spanish about the standards of the Department of Completion (https://compliance.gunvorgroup.com/?lang=es).

In 2016, Pietras signaled to EL UNIVERSO that Gunvor “has not made transactions with Petrochina related to the Ecuadorian crude since 2010” and that “it has not negotiated with Senor (Enrique) Cadena”. These responses are included in the report on Petroecuador’s first bargaining negotiations with Petrochina Internacional, the first prize of millions of dollars canceled with crudo, and the last $ 1 commission per barrel for barriers in equatorial products, realidad iba a Castor Petroleum, del Grupo Gunvor.

In the investigation, which forms part of the Papeles de Panamá series (which has five years), reveals the mechanism used and which is part of the archives of the Mossack Fonseca studio. Naparina Corp., of Cadena, has entered into a consulting agreement with Castor and invoiced to Waterway Petroleum LLC, based in the Bahamas, on behalf of the Eston Trading Company, in which Jaime Baquerizo Escobar also participated. The money is deposited in Panama and from there it will be transferred to New York. Without embargo, the Panamanian bank will close the account by considering that the deposits do not correspond to the activity declared by the company.

This investigation corroboraba the denunciations of entities assembled Cléver Jiménez (now prefect of Zamora Chinchipe) and Fernando Villavicencio (now electo assembly), about petrol intermediation. The Fiscal of Ecuador openly conducted an investigation, but did not complete the induction phase.

This is a statement of information for the Contraloría General del Estado, within 2012 and 2017, Petroecuador realizó 18 negotiated financial transactions of $ 7,060 million, llamadas preventas petroleras, con empresas como Unipec, Petrochina y Petrotailandia. These contracts hiccuped that during some years Petroecuador did not realize real estate sales (spot), then all the lots of crude were destined to pay these pre-existing debt. (I)