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That \r\nsame month of 2007, Housman requested certificates for two different companies \r\nfor Eudomario Carruyo and Juan Montes. Montes was a director of Investments of \r\nPDVSA, a subordinate of the Vice President of Finance, responsible for the \r\nplacement of money from the funds of pensioners and retirees of the state oil \r\ncompany. According to the prosecutors of the case against the \r\nVenezuelan-American Francisco Illaramendi, accused of participating in a Ponzi \r\nscheme to defraud almost 500 million dollars to retirees and pensioners of \r\nPDVSA, Montes received bribes from Illaramendi. The US authorities called him to \r\ntestify. He reached an agreement to cooperate with justice and was released from \r\na custodial sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n
Cheated Controls<\/h2>\n\n\n
In \r\n2009, with the authorization of the founders and shareholders of Mossack \r\nFonseca, all the controls were cheated. On October 27 of the same year, Housman \r\nrequested again that Carruyo be given powers to run the company, again a shell \r\ncompany, registered in Virgin Islands, Bistleigh Overseas LTD. Incidentally, \r\nthat same day he requested once more, to transfer another firm, Mercury Limited \r\nService, to the former Vice Minister of Electric Power, Nervis Villalobos, who \r\nleft the government for corruption allegations and is among the former employees \r\naccused of having laundered money through of the Private Bank of \r\nAndorra.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
Two \r\ndays later, on October 29, after four years as a client of the firm founded in \r\nPanama, Mossack Fonseca warned that Carruyo was a Politically Exposed Person \r\n(PEP).<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
The \r\noffice in Switzerland was alerted from the isthmus, and they did not take long \r\nto respond: \"A client has requested powers for a person who appears as PEP, but \r\nwho holds no political position. He only works in Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela S.A., \r\nwhich apparently is a government-related organization, but this person does not \r\nhold any political office... Please give your consent or not to issue the power. \r\nThe customer, by the way, is not happy (as always happens with these issues).\" \r\nFrom Panama they responded, \"We have not found any information that relates Mr. \r\nCarruyo with illegal acts\".<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
However, \r\nthe doubt seems to have offended the still Vice President of Finance, which \r\ncaused Trusban to desist from the interest of acquiring power for his client. To \r\ndemonstrate how the process of creating and assigning companies works, two \r\nmonths later, Bistleigh Overseas LTD would change hands. This time, a mechanical \r\nengineer of Azerbaijan would be in charge.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
The \r\nsetback did not stop the Carruyos from being in control of Ozark, the company \r\nregistered in 2005. But at the insistence of members of Mossack Fonseca, who \r\nwanted to obtain more accurate information about the company's activities, it \r\nwould be up to the family counselor to admit that \"the activity of Ozark is the \r\nopening of a bank account in Switzerland.\"<\/p>\n\n\n A \r\nyear later, in May 2013, the Carruyos would sign an agreement with Banque \r\nHeritage, the same entity from which Nervis Villalobos also did business. Once \r\nagain, Housman would give a key answer in view of the insistence of the staff of \r\nMossack Fonseca to obtain more than general information, \"the company papers are \r\nin Venezuela\".<\/p>\n\n\n A \r\ntop manager says that Eudomario Carruyo had a good relationship with Diego \r\nSalazar, cousin of Rafael Ram\u00edrez, insurance and reinsurance broker of PDVSA, \r\nand mentioned in the case of money laundering through the Private Bank of \r\nAndorra.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n In \r\n2006, the Comptroller General of the Republic brought an action against him for \r\nnot filing his sworn statement of assets, which was transferred to the Public \r\nProsecutor's Office. That case appears in the annual report of the Prosecuting \r\nAttorney's Office of 2008, but does not detail results. The Office of the \r\nComptroller has not penalized him yet.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n In \r\naddition, he is accused of being one of the persons in charge - following higher \r\norders \u2013 of providing money from PDVSA for the financing of national or \r\ninternational electoral campaigns, such as Cristina Kichner's, in Argentina. \"It \r\nwas not a suitcase; there were six suitcases sent with money. But they only \r\ncaptured Guido Antonini Wilson,\" says one interviewee when recalling the arrest \r\nof a Venezuelan businessman in Buenos Aires in August 2007, who a suitcase with \r\n When \r\nhe was dismissed on May 26, 2011, by order of the then President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, \r\napparently no one celebrated in La Campi\u00f1a, the main headquarters of the oil \r\ncompany located in eastern Caracas, but more than one took a deep breath. Many \r\nknew about the capers of Carruyo and his sons Eudo and Carlos in Pdvsa. \"They \r\nwere extremely shameless. None of the things said about them was a surprise\u2026 \r\nthat they did that business. It was a common matter to hear stories of the three \r\nof them in the building,\" says an executive of the state oil company that was \r\nclose to them, who recalls that Eudo Carruyo, the eldest son, was an external \r\nplanning advisor, while Carlos, the youngest, worked in the PDVSA audit area. \r\nThe eldest was the one who drew more attention.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n Carruyo, \r\na public accountant graduated from Universidad del Zulia, had a long career in \r\nPDVSA that began in the '70s. From 1992 to 1997, he was director of Palmaven, a \r\nsubsidiary of Pequiven. In 1999, he would be part of the main team of auditors \r\nof the industry accounts, a position he held until 2002. Three years later, he \r\nwould not only be appointed acting director, but also director of Citgo, \r\nDeltaven, Pdvsa Marina and Vice President of Finance, a position he held until \r\nhis dismissal due to the Illaramendi case.<\/p>\n\n\n In \r\n2011, exactly 15 days before Ch\u00e1vez dismissed him, Carruyo issued his last \r\npublic statement. It was a letter sent to the National Assembly, where he denied \r\nthat the PDVSA board was responsible for the loss of $ 453 million in the \r\nfraudulent Ponzi scheme mounted by Illaramendi, who, he said, worked for the \r\nstate company in 2004. He also reported that the state oil company would be \r\nresponsible for covering the lost funds.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n Since \r\nthen, nothing else has been heard from him, either orally or in writing. He went \r\ninto ostracism, despite the fact that, according to the database of the \r\nVenezuelan Institute of Social Security, he worked at PDV Marina until March \r\n2015. People who know him say that he spends a lot of time in La Romana, \r\nDominican Republic, aboard a yacht acquired by his son, where he offers dinners \r\nwith luxurious tableware purchased in Miami or New York. Despite of the efforts \r\nfind him through PDVSA or old colleagues, he could not be located to ask him to \r\ngive us an interview for this report.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n His \r\nchildren, particularly Eudo, continue carrying out different types of business \r\nactivities, both in Venezuela and abroad. However, he cannot return to the US, \r\nbecause he fled from the justice of that country after causing the death of his \r\ncompanion in the 2005 car accident. In addition to a debt with the US judicial \r\nsystem, he owed over $ 182,000 to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was \r\ntreated after the crash. He only paid the bill after a lawsuit in December 2005. \r\nPeople who have worked with them identify them as importers of prefabricated \r\nhouses to cover Petrocasa's deficit, among other products. It was also \r\nimpossible to contact the brothers.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n In \r\nPanama, the eldest of the Carruyo Perozo registered company Bluenor \r\nInternational, and Douglas Cosentino - an entrepreneur in the footwear sector of \r\nthe West of Caracas - is a partner who, in photographs posted on Twitter, poses \r\nnext to sports cars, a plane and a yacht. We called to the headquarters of \r\nCreaciones Hermanos Cosentino, located in Catia, to ??contact the Carruyos, but \r\nthere was no response.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n As \r\nto Juan Carlos Linares Perozo, there is little information available. According \r\nto the Dateas.com database, there is only one person with that name in \r\nVenezuela. The Social Security indicates that he works at Tecnoconsult, but a \r\ntelephone operator from the engineering consulting company said that he did not \r\nappear in the internal record. We sent a message to his alleged Facebook account \r\nto try to contact him, but there was no response.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n For \r\nthe time being, the documents of Mossack Fonseca remain as samples of the \r\noperations carried out through Panama, the British Virgin Islands and \r\nSwitzerland, the latter being the country where the judicial authorities \r\nannounced during the Holy Week that 18 banks will support USA in the \r\ninvestigation of money laundering through PDVSA accounts. Therefore, they will \r\ndeliver the bank records. Then, perhaps, there will be fortunes that may not be \r\nconcealed.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PP-17.png\")
Major Connections<\/h2>\n\n\n
$ 800,000 in cash. It is stated that Carruyo also participated in the \r\nplot.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PP-18.jpg\")
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