WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday offers a $ 10 million prize for the arrest of money laundering charges from the partner of a businessman whose extracuration is annoying the leader of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro.
Alvaro Pulido, who is Colombia, has been charged with Alex Saab on charges of running a network that exploits food assistance aimed at the poor Venezuela and moves $ 350 million into a foreign account.
The West African Island of Cape Verde earlier this month extraditing Saab to the United States, Maduro who was angry who suspended dialogue with US-backed opposition.
The State Department said it offered $ 10 million for information that led to the arrest or pulido belief.
“Pulido and Co-Conspirators allegedly mark the cost of producing food boxes to make personal benefits from their production,” said the announcement.
Pulido and four others were slapped with new charges on the scheme launched on Thursday by the Grand Federal jury in Florida.
If punished, Pulido and the other can each face 100 years in prison, according to the Ministry of Justice.
Venezuela’s opposition has described Saab as a Frontman who made a shade transaction for Maduro, a left-wing populist whose country had fallen into economic despair.