A very fat swindle by Teodoro Petkoff

The Devil's Excrement (Venezuela) ^ | Dec. 13, 2004 | Teodoro Petkoff, translated by Miguel Octavio

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Jesus Bermudez, called “Fat (Gordo) Bermudez”, former Vice-Minister of Finance with Tobias Nóbrega, has been detained in Miami and is going to be subject to a trial for a number of violations of the law, among them, attempting to introduce as contraband forty thousand dollars in cash into the US. But things are not as simple as Jose Vicente (the VP) attempted to make it look, when he denied that the plane in which the “Gordo” traveled belonged to CVG. Let’s see.

In order to be free on bail, one hundred thousand dollars were paid in a flash. Who paid? Someone called Leonardo LLaneza. Let’s pull that thread. Who is Leonardo Llaneza? The brother and partner of Ramon Llaneza in various companies in Miami. And who is Ramon Llaneza? ...

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This is an article that the Venezuelan blogger Miguel Octavio took the trouble to translate for us, explaining a huge looming scandal concerning a fat slimebucket in the pay of Hugo Chavez who's recently been busted on a currency violation in Miami airport. He's in jail and his moneylaundering activities are about to blow up, big. Some Miami bankers are worried. The whole thing is about the putrid extent of corruption in Chavez's Venezuela. Communist dictatorships are corrupt beyond imagination.