Department of Justice:
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment on Oct. 7, which was unsealed today, charging three Colombian nationals and two Venezuelan nationals for their alleged roles in laundering the proceeds of contracts to provide food and medicine to Venezuela that were obtained through bribes.
According to court documents, Alvaro Pulido Vargas, aka German Enrique Rubio Salas, aka Cuchi, 57, of Colombia; Jose Gregorio Vielma-Mora, 55, of Venezuela; Emmanuel Enrique Rubio Gonzalez, 32, of Colombia; Carlos Rolando Lizcano Manrique, 50, of Colombia; and Ana Guillermo Luis, 49, of Venezuela, were charged in an indictment for their alleged roles in laundering the proceeds of a bribery scheme to obtain and retain inflated contracts through the Comité Local de Abastecimiento y Producción (CLAP), a Venezuelan state-owned and state-controlled food and medicine distribution program for the people of Venezuela.
The indictment alleges that beginning in or around July 2015 and continuing until at least 2020, Pulido, Vielma-Mora, Rubio, Lizcano, and Guillermo conspired with others to launder the proceeds of an illegal bribery scheme from bank accounts located in Antigua, United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere to and through bank accounts in the United States.
According to the indictment, Pulido, Vielma-Mora, Rubio, Lizcano, and Guillermo and others obtained contracts with Venezuelan governmental entities to import and distribute boxes of food and medicine in Venezuela through CLAP by paying bribes to Venezuelan government officials, including Vielma-Mora.
The defendants and their co-conspirators knowingly inflated the costs of the contracts to pay the bribes and unjustly enrich themselves.
The indictment also alleges that co-conspirators directed funds to be transferred to promote the bribery scheme while in the United States, and wired money related to the scheme to bank accounts in the Southern District of Florida.
As a result of the scheme, Pulido, Vielma-Mora, Rubio, Lizcano, Guillermo, and their co-conspirators allegedly received approximately $1.6 billion from the Republic of Venezuela, and transferred approximately $180 million through or to the United States.
The defendants are each charged in a five-count indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and four counts of money laundering. If convicted, they each face a maximum total penalty of 100 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Acting U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez for the Southern District of Florida, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Acting Special Agent in Charge La Verne J. Hibbert of the DEA Miami Field Office made the announcement.
This case was investigated by DEA Miami with assistance from the FBI’s Miami Field Office and Homeland Security Investigation’s Miami Field Office.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kurt K. Lunkenheimer of the Southern District of Florida and Trial Attorney Alexander J. Kramer of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section are prosecuting the case.
To see indictment, click here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1444001/download.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or at http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov, under case number 21-cr-20509.
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Why are you not naming the High-ranking free masons that own the bank and the name of the bank? They are as corrupt as the Colombian and Venezuelan ‘Spaniard and they knew what they were doing! Meanwhile they are attending the lodge like nothing happened. As usual these demons that control the banks, the police, the military, and the news outlets will walk away Scott free as if this even never took place. All of them belong in prison and their bank money laundering facility needs to be closed. The high ranking freemasons are the scourge of this planet and they worship Lucifer and not our creator or our people , our country or our flag. Their first commitment s to the masons and the elite this is why every position which holds power and control is held by a high-ranking free mason, period end of lesson, no charge.
I’m surprised your comment was approved. But you are right about the Luciferian worshippers who sit in high places and are deceived by the “light bearer” who leads them into diabolical darkness. Thankfully the Creator, Yhwh, will always be the Most High.
Cut the freemason crap and get real, please.
Antigua again? Now I wonder why they want a bank and financial centre in the new free economic zone?
Why we ain’t exposing the bank and the pple in Antigua who are involved? What is the secret?
I am wondering which Bank in Antigua,the monies were washed through.
Laundered money from “Bank Accounts in Antigua” and the UAE. Why the heck my Country,Antigua,seems to be always involved into some sort of skullduggery. How could a Bank and or Banks in Antigua allowed that to happen? I came into Antigua went to a Bank to open an account. The only document they did not ask me for was one with my blood type. So how it is,the same is not asked of others. Is it because they have friends in higher places? Is there still a double standard of classism that exists in Antigua from Colonial Times to now.Yes,I know that of which I speak.
Gaston Browne,I dare you to tell us the name of the Bank/Banks involved in this washing of monies,on that show on your Station,Saturday.
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