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Venezuelan ex-minister Pedro Tellechea, who believed it was a huge corruption affair in the PDVSA state, was arrested and told the tax office on Monday that law enforcement was controlled by a “company controlled by secret services.” Estados Unidos.

Tellechea, the former minister of petroleum and president of the Petroleum Production of Venezuela (PDVSA), recently considered the government of the Dominican Republic to be “immediate collaborators” of “Graves Delitos” in the last “underground” of the system. PDVSA automation is “a company that which is controlled by the intelligence services of the EEUU,” followed by a statement from the Public Ministry.

The document contains no other names.

The tax office is that it is a “brain of the PDVSA” belonging to a third company, without “all legal mechanisms” and “national sobriety”.

Tellechea, a 48-year-old colonel, had left the Minister of Transport of the Ministry of Petroleum in March 2023 with the “healthy” promise of this sector after a corruption suspicion that had been transported before his predecessor, the incarcerated Tareck El Aissami. A single estimate was the cost in Caribbean País to about 17,000 million dollars. Since this year I have been President of PDVSA.

El Aissami, who was a hard-line associate of Maduro and ousted ex-President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), was not implicated in investigations into evil-related corruption, which was crucial to Venezuela's economy.

Rafael Ramírez, Petrominister from 2002 to 2014 and President of PDVSA from 2004 to 2014, worked in Italy on behalf of Eulogio del Pino and Nelson Martínez, who also displayed two charges and was arrested. Martínez Murió in prison.

The arrest of the former Tellechea minister led to a recruited political crisis over fraud charges against the opposition and Maduro's re-election for a third consecutive term (2025-2031), on July 28.

The Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), as executor, announced the mandate, but had not published it following a detailed review because its system was exempt from a democratic headquarters.

The statement, published on a site on the Internet, contains copies of election files on the grounds that the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who was exiled in Spain, had requested the return of a candidate's Triunfo due to an arrest warrant against him. The election protests lasted 27 months – between two military personnel – about 200 deaths and more than 2,400 prisoners.

Petroleum production in Venezuela, which was 3 million barrels per day 15 years ago, fell to over 400,000 barrels per day in 2020, a multi-decade minimum.

Due to the licenses that the Departamento del Tesoro has granted to its Sanciones Financiers as energy suppliers such as Chevron or Repsol to operate in the country, the company offers a Venezuelan gasoline supply led by Tellechea to drive in the current situation No, go 900,000 bd.

“I am PDVSA and I intend to recover the industrial park,” said President Nicolás Maduro, warmly welcomed, when he handed over the post of Petrominister to the Minister of Industry in August.

His successor in the energy file was Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

Without embargo, on the fourth day, Maduro drafted the Colombian employer Alex Saab, who was installed as “Testaferro” by the governor of the United States and freed by the United States in December in a prison cell as Minister of Industry.

On social networks, Tellechea said that he had to forgo “immediate attention” because of “health problems.”

Maduro's electoral tribunal has been unsettled by the United States, the European Union and various Latin American countries due to uncertainty over the licensing system they received in the practice of Joe Biden's administration in Washington.