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<\/div><\/div>Some of the \"CLAP Stores\" in Caracas are in the premises that were once Abastos Bicentenario. However, behind the new business is a newly created private company called Salva Foods.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/05082018-02.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div>Some of the \"CLAP Stores\" in Caracas are in the premises that were once Abastos Bicentenario. However, behind the new business is a newly created private company called Salva Foods.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\nThe \r\nformula for taking over this other link of the business is repeated. Neither \r\nSaab Mor\u00e1n nor Pulido Vargas has shares in Salva Foods, but several hints lead \r\nto them. It is a business network with many pieces, put together like a \r\npuzzle.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
To \r\nverify that Salva Foods is the owner of the CLAP Stores, it is enough to buy in \r\none of the nine branches in Caracas. In addition to the name of the company, an \r\naddress appears on the invoices, which was the same that appears on its first \r\nTax Information Registry (RIF). First, it seems to lead to any office in Centro \r\nBanaven, colloquially known as Cubo Negro (Black Cube), a business complex \r\nsoutheast of the Venezuelan capital. But it is not any office, it is the same \r\naddress published on the website -currently inactive- of Group \r\nGrand Limited<\/A>, after Armando.info <\/B>discovered that this company \r\ninitially had the same headquarters as Fondo Global de Construcci\u00f3n, another \r\ncompany that let Saab Mor\u00e1n and Pulido Vargas become Chavismo<\/I> contractors \r\nin 2011.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
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<\/div><\/div>The purchase invoices in the \"CLAP Stores\" and the initial RIF of Salva Foods show an address also used by Group Grand Limited on its website.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/05082018-04.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div>The purchase invoices in the \"CLAP Stores\" and the initial RIF of Salva Foods show an address also used by Group Grand Limited on its website.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/05082018-05.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div>The purchase invoices in the \"CLAP Stores\" and the initial RIF of Salva Foods show an address also used by Group Grand Limited on its website.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/05082018-05B.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div>The purchase invoices in the \"CLAP Stores\" and the initial RIF of Salva Foods show an address also used by Group Grand Limited on its website.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\nHowever, \r\nthe address is incorrect. At least that is what they say at the Banaven Center. \r\nThey deny that they once hosted Group Grand Limited or Salva Foods. The office \r\nof Salva Food is actually and finally in Centro Altamira, another office tower \r\nin the northeast of Caracas.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
Error \r\nor not, the Banaven Center will not be the only coincidence between the two \r\ncompanies. The calls made to the telephone number on the invoices issued by \r\nGroup Grand Limited to the Venezuelan Government for the millions of food combos \r\nfrom Mexico are answered by Carlos Rolando Lizcano Manrique, an entrepreneur \r\nborn in C\u00facuta (Department of Norte de Santander, northwestern Colombia), of 47 \r\nyears of age, and owner of Salva Foods.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
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<\/div><\/div>Salva Foods office occupies a floor of Centro Altamira, a business building east of Caracas.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/05082018-07.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div>Salva Foods office occupies a floor of Centro Altamira, a business building east of Caracas.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\nMultiple Connections<\/h2>\n\n\n
Carlos \r\nRolando Lizcano Manrique also has companies in Colombia and Panama. A \r\nyear ago, in a brief telephone conversation, he denied that Group Grand Limited \r\nwas related to Alex Saab Mor\u00e1n and \u00c1lvaro Pulido Vargas, and merely stated that \r\nit was a Hong Kong company. However, the papers of the commercial registry of \r\nthat jurisdiction revealed that Shadi Nain Saab Certain, son of Alex Saab Mor\u00e1n, \r\nwas a beneficiary of the company from 2015 until February 24, 2017. \r\nSubsequently, Armando.info<\/B> discovered that the attorney-in-fact of the company before the Government of Maduro is \r\nAndreina Fuentes Mazzei, who is also a director of Fondo Global de \r\nConstrucci\u00f3n<\/A>, and that a son of \u00c1lvaro Pulido Vargas was \r\nattorney-in-fact of a branch of \r\nGroup Grand Limited, created in Mexico<\/A>.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
Thus, \r\nCarlos Rolando Lizcano Manrique answering the telephone of Group Grand Limited \r\ndoes not seem a matter of chance. There is also another coincidence. Its Tax \r\nInformation Registry (RIF) has the same address as the RIF of the company \r\nregistered in Hong Kong, which is the one reported in some cargo manifests. \r\nBeing the main suppliers of CLAP boxes with contracts for the Government of the \r\nState of T\u00e1chira and the Ministry of Food for around 700 million dollars was not \r\nenough. Another piece of the plot was missing.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
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<\/div><\/div>The RIF address of Carlos Lizcano Manrique, owner of Salva Foods, also matches with one of those used by Group Grand Limited in cargo manifests, according to the Panjiva database.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/armando.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/05082018-09.jpg\")
<\/div><\/div>The RIF address of Carlos Lizcano Manrique, owner of Salva Foods, also matches with one of those used by Group Grand Limited in cargo manifests, according to the Panjiva database.<\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/li>
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