Opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa accused Colombian businessman Álvaro Pulido this Sunday of being one of the “big operators of Chavista corruption” in the country and pointed out that this looting must be investigated “to the last consequences.”
“Journalists had to flee the country to investigate and denounce these criminal businesses. Many citizens were persecuted,” the opposition leader wrote in a message published in X.
He added that Chavismo “squandered the largest oil bonanza” in the history of Venezuela, “while condemning millions of Venezuelans to hunger, poverty and exile.”
“All this looting must be investigated to the last consequences. Long live Free Venezuela,” concluded the leader of Primero Justicia.
Pulido Vargas, identified as a partner of Alex Saab, He was extradited from Venezuela and placed at the disposal of United States justice.
Federal sources confirmed to El Tiempo that DEA group 10 took Pulido Vargas, arrested for embezzlement from the state oil company PDVSAafter a court in South Florida opened two proceedings for money laundering and fraud through CLAP funds, among other conduct.
Pulido, who also uses the name Germán Enrique Rubio Salasappears among those investigated in the corporate network through which the regime’s money was moved.
In this context, two other people appear who would be extracted from Venezuela in the coming days, with the approval of the transitional government of Delcy Rodríguez.
In March 2023, Pulido had already been captured in Venezuela in the scandal over the looting of the state oil company PDVSA. But the process against Saab, who is collaborating with the United States justice system, reactivated the two cases against him, in which his son also appears.
