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Portmann Capital Management Ltd, the Maltese company allegedly involved in money laundering on behalf of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has already informed the Malta Financial Services Authority that it was the unnamed company being referred to in th‘Portmann heard of alleged Venezuelan racket from media’
Portmann Capital Management Ltd, the Maltese company allegedly involved in money laundering on behalf of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has already informed the Malta Financial Services Authority that it was the unnamed company being referred to in the international media reports on the case. Sources said the company claimed that it had learnt of the alleged racket from media reports. According to a criminal complaint filed in the courts of Miami by the US Department of Homeland Security last week, staggering sums of money were syphoned from the country’s State oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, in a complex money-laundering scheme. Some of the names being mentioned in the court documents were “familiar” to the company. Among those clients is José Vincenete Amparan Croquer, a Venezuelan lawyer who is mentioned repeatedly in the criminal complaint. According to the criminal complaint, Mr Croquer, known as ‘Chente’, is a Venezuelan national believed to be a “professional money launderer”. An affidavit submitted by a Homeland Security agent details how Mr Croquer is associated with a number of conspirators and a money laundering front operating as a real estate... Read more