Venezuela: US Information
About Laundering
CARACAS - Venezuela is waiting on Monday for
the petition of information to the US about
a laundering investigation that allegedly
involves Venezuelans, according to versions
of US officials.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolas Maduro
informed that an official note, which
requests cooperation to make progress in an
investigation of the case, was handed in to
an official at the US embassy to Caracas.
According to the American version, the
Venezuelan currency parallel market, which
is a mechanism criticized by Chavez, who
ordered to suspend it so that the Central
Bank would assume that responsibility, is
being used to launder.
Venezuelan authorities consider that these
irregularities are affecting the rate of the
bolivars regarding the dollar and this
mechanism could be used to launder the money
coming from drug-trafficking or other
illegal business.
Maduro pointed out that Venezuela waits for
the handing over of facts with no delay
considering that "our organs permanently
cooperate in the deportation of
drug-traffickers."
The US government informed the detection of
a network that was operating in Puerto Rico,
New York and Florida and was trading part of
the money at the dollar parallel market in
Venezuela. |
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