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Keisbel Jose Gimenez Ochoa @niTanTukky: exhibit 1 of Twitter's subjectivity re own rules
The unravelling of Twitter, to this site's editor at least, has been fascinating. A bit like Prince Andrew's interview.
Message to INFODIO readers: investigative journalism, which is what this site does, takes lots of time. Visiting media looking for a quick run down on Venezuela's gargantuan corruption, have the decency to at least cite the source when plagiarising this site's content without attribution (exhibit Reuters here and here, exhibit Bloomberg here, exhibit OCCRP here). To all readers, do the right thing, the honest thing: support independent investigative journalism, help us expose rampant corruption. Note added 28/06/2021: impostors are using INFODIO's former editor's full name, and a fake email address (alek.boyd.arregui at gmail.com) to send copyright infringement claims / take down requests to web hosting companies (exhibit Hostgator). The attempt is yet another effort paid by corrupt thugs to erase information about their criminal activities. Infodio.com has no issues with other websites / journalists using / posting information published here, so long as the source is properly cited.
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Italy's Guardia di Finanza seizes Alex Saab, lover Camilla Fabri laundered money
This site can report that both Alex Saab and Abelardo de la Espriella are persons of interest for U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and DEA. Given his partnership with Rubio (Pulido Vargas) and Cordoba, Saab has been under scrutiny for quite some time. Saab, who left for Rome just before the recent Colombian probe was announced in late September, has also become a person of interest for Italy's financial watchdog.
UPDATED: Robert Hanson laundering Tareck el Aissami funds via Victor Vargas' Banco del Orinoco
In late October 2013, this site reported about Venezuela's largest media acquisition no one had heard about:
ALLBank bankruptcy: Panamanian proxies of clan Cilia Flores / Nicolas Maduro revealed
The good thing about the now-official bankruptcy of Victor Vargas' ALLBank in Panama is the amount of evidence of corruption that it will produce. A cache of internal documents from ALLBank seen by this site shows that Vargas' operation was little more than a money laundering platform.
UPDATE 2: U.S. Justice Department v Luis Oberto Anselmi et al
SEE UPDATES BELOW | Got a Google alert this morning, about Charles Henry de Beaumont, the mega corrupt French-Swiss banker from Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique involved in multi billion dollar money laundering schemes with Luis and Ignacio Oberto Anselmi, Francisco Convit, Alejandro Betancourt, Danilo Diazgranados, Rafael Ramirez, Victor Aular Blanco, Juan Andres Wallis Brandt, etc. Curiously, when I clicked on the link, to a Miami Herald article, it led to a missing page. It does not matter.
A public note to Florida Judge Barbara Areces re Stambul LLC
Stambul LLC is one of those Florida-based businesses owned and run by Venezuelans that, all of a sudden, have hundreds of millions of dollars to invest and develop real estate.
Get Betancourt DoJ: he'll bring Ramirez, PDVSA, Ivanov, Anisimov & Gazprom
Further to news reported by Miami Herald today, about involvement of Alejandro Betancourt in Operation Money Flight and how the loot was divided among cartel members, sources have told this site that the U.S.