PDVSA Punishes Treason to the Homeland and Corruption

Tareck El Aisami, former Oil Minister of Venezuela, was recently incarcerated. El Aisami is being prosecuted for corruption, charged with the illegal sale of Venezuela's oil and derivatives to various foreign buyers for an estimated sum of $2 billion, for which he faces 30 years to life in prison.

This was detailed by the Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, through a national TV broadcast on April 29, 2023. In the broadcast, the Attorney General played three audio recordings in which Samark López (the "financial operator" of El Aissami, involved in acts of corruption) is heard interacting with Leopoldo López and Julio Borges—two of the biggest US-sponsored far-right Monroeist terrorists and thieves of Venezuela's minority fascist remnants of the 19th-20th-century anti-Bolivarian oligarchies.

In those recordings, far-right political actors Leopoldo López, Carlos Ocariz, and Julio Borges—who have stolen billions of US dollars from the Venezuelan state and working class through various publicly known plots—are heard conversing with “businessman” Samark López, accused by Bolivarian authorities of acting as a front-man for Tareck El Aissami.

Life in prison is what they get for opportunistic traitors, sons of a trot! Life in prison for being guilty of killing thousands of proletarians in Venezuela that needed the healthcare, medical treatment, and other necessities they couldn't fulfill because of the billions these cowards stole from the Bolivarian state.

The money we—the Venezuelan people—needed was stolen; all so they could pursue their bourgeoisie greed of living off stolen billions like plutocrats! Stolen billions from a revolutionary government building a socialist homeland. I’ll personally run for the constitutional assembly to collectively enable life sentences for all opportunistic traitors, moles, and spies!

The Corruption Scheme: Some Details

Attorney General Tarek William Saab presented other findings at a press conference. The Public Ministry obtained new revelations through the confessions of 67 detainees in this case. In his confession, Samark explained the two modalities applied from 2020 to 2022:

1. Oil shipments to different companies included high commissions to contractors with links to the far-right US-sponsored political parties Primero Justicia (Julio Borges) and Voluntad Popular (Leopoldo López). The profits ranged from $120 to $140 million per shipment, depending on the oil price market at the time of the shipment.

   
   

2. Tareck El Aisami, acting as a seller through PDVSA, sent oil and petroleum derivative products in naval shipments to foreign buyers, but PDVSA was only paid for the oil portion of the shipment. The petroleum derivative products were sent for free to the buyers, and the money obtained was distributed between the buyer and the corrupted members of the plot. Also, a commission was paid by the buyer to the corruption chain calculated on the oil portion of the shipment.

Samark said that he and his team members only gave continuity to the illegal contracts; the Spanish contractors and the corruption methods originated during the administration of PDVSA ex-President Rafael Ramírez—another shameful traitor who stole billions before fleeing to Europe and currently hides in Italy—who left a sleeper cell.

The Connections Between Tareck El Aissami, Samark, US Agents, and Their Fascist Pawns

The head of the Public Ministry, Tarek William Saab, said that Samark López was also El Aissami's liaison with US officials such as James Story, who was the head of the United States Foreign Office for Venezuela based in Bogotá.

Samark López had been prosecuted in the United States, first for drug trafficking and then for "violating US sanctions" against Venezuela. In the first instance, Samark López was the subject of sanctions by the US Treasury Department, and his assets were ordered to be confiscated in 2020. At the end of August 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the sentence issued by federal Judge Robert N. Scola that same year, which recited seizing the assets of the Venezuelan businessman.

Samark López had been indicted in New York court for allegedly violating sanctions that froze his considerable wealth in the United States, including yachts, airplanes, luxury real estate in Miami, and a Citibank account that had $269 million.

President Maduro’s Decisive Leadership in Counterespionage

Samark was suspected by Venezuelan authorities of acting as a front-man for Tareck El Aissami. But the unexpected way in which Samark López got rid of the charges in the United States made it seem that this plot could be more complex, so the Venezuelan authorities, led by President Nicolás Maduro himself, decided to investigate thoroughly.

Both Tareck El Aisami and Samark López wanted Washington not to touch their interests on US soil; in return, they became traitors, moles collaborating as puppet slaves to the rotten US empire. El Aissami served the Anglo-Zionist government as agent of change in Venezuela, through any means necessary.

US Coup and Assassination Plot

The complex plot suggests the largest infiltration of US agents in the Bolivarian government's structure in recent years. President Nicolás Maduro emphasized that he was personally responsible for finding the elements of this conspiracy that, in addition to economic, was political.

The President expressed: "I can say with absolute knowledge of all these tests, that they involve barely 1% of what we have. I can guarantee that this investigation has provided convincing elements that a very corrupt mafia was set up that took advantage of the trust and power that was given to them, not only to steal and embezzle the country but to articulate a plan with the extremist right and the US government."

He assured that what were presumptions, today are confirmed with evidence. The investigations revealed that those involved had been working together for two years. In this regard, Maduro stressed: "At least since January 2018 they were coordinating the conspiracy.”

Maduro said that the 2019 failed coup executed by Leopoldo López’s far-right party Voluntad Popular with the support of the White House, including John Bolton and James Story. El Aissami and his group not only knew about the failed assassination attempt on President Nicolás Maduro in August 2018, the coup of April 30, 2019, “Operation Freedom,” and the 2020 “Operation Gideon,” an attempt to introduce US paramilitary to Venezuelan territory to assassinate President Maduro, but were involved in them as well. Others who were involved will soon face justice.

The coercive measures against Venezuela, especially those concerning the execution of direct "sanctions" against Venezuelan officials (including Tareck El Aisami) since 2017, would have broken El Aissami and turned him into a valuable asset of the US's decaying hegemony, in favor of its interests.

The leadership capabilities of President Nicolás Maduro are unquestionable. Being the only leftist president in LAC not to be overthrown this decade by the decadent US is one of many good reasons why I'll reelect him on July 28 with the immense majority of my Venezuelan comrades towards a multipolar post-capitalist 2030.

¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre! ¡Independencia y Patria Socialista! ¡Viviremos y Venceremos!