PDVAL affair
The PDVAL affair is a corruption case that has been a political issue in Venezuela for years . Over 2,300 containers of food , which the government imported in 2009 and never distributed, spoiled in Venezuelan ports.
The case is popularly called caso PUDREVAL , after the Spanish word pudrir , starving.
history
PDVAL is a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA , which organizes the import and transport of food.
The opposition Governor Carabobos , Henrique Salas Feo, filed a complaint on April 2, 2009 about spoiled food in the PDVAL camps. He reported that 30 containers of milk were no longer drinkable in the port of Puerto Cabello.
On July 17, Lara State police arrested 43 people who were in the process of packing 68 tons of PDVAL milk with a new expiry date of November 29. The next day the new president of PDVAL, Carlos Osorio, announced that they wanted to sell this milk, but only as feed for animals. PDVAL reported that in 2009 25,700 tons of milk had already been sold for this purpose, with a price reduction of 30%.
The opposition claimed in 2010 that over 75,000 tons, one-fifth of all imports made by the government, were lost.
examination
Three people were arrested for the first time: the former president of PDVAL, Luis Enrique Pulido, and the administrators Ronald Flores and Vilyeska Betancourt. All three were released in late 2011. Flores and Betancourt returned to their jobs; Luis Enrique Pulido worked in the sequence during the election campaign team of Hugo Chavez.
PDVAL affair and Wikileaks
According to Wikileaks , a Stratfor report claims that PDVAL is being used to launder money .
As recently as 2012, the opposition complained that the government had not taken appropriate measures.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Venezuela is in dire straits: Chavez takes it to the extreme (Frankfurter Rundschau)
- ^ Opposition informs about PDVAL
- ↑ 8 tons of milk discovered
- ↑ Government approved sales of milk after expiration date
- ↑ New lawsuit against PDVAL leaders ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Escándalo de “pudreval” cumple dos años
- ^ Wikileaks and PDVAL
- ^ Opposition criticizes government for PDVAL affair
