Using the port of Limón as a “technical stop”, the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro would have received money from Mexico.
A report published by the Spanish newspaper ABC indicated that the money would have arrived in the country from food shipments as part of an aid program called CLAP. The money would also be part of resources from the Mexican drug cartels.
The publication explains that the Venezuelan company Alunasa is domiciled in Costa Rica, which is state-owned and which has a terminal.
Through that company, the money would have entered the financial system and reached accounts in Russian banks linked to the leaders Diosdado Cabello and Tarek el Aissami. This would have happened with cargoes managed by El Sardinero Es Servicio, SA, the Mexican company that has exported more food in recent years to Venezuela, directly or through subsidiaries, for the food bag program of the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP),”
the publication said.
According to the newspaper, the information comes from an investigation developed by the United States government, specifically from the United States Department of State and other agencies in Washington. It adds that there was frequent money between food containers that arrived at a technical stop that was later recorded in the navigation records.
Thus, from Costa Rica the money was laundered to enter accounts linked to Chavismo, although a part continued its direct course to the South American country.
According to ABC, the movement explains an alert launched in 2018 by the U.S. Department of the Treasury about the apparent use of Alunasa for money laundering, by senior Venezuelan officials such as Diosdado Cabello.