President Carlos Alvarado is aware that the Spanish media ABC stated that leaders of the Venezuelan government would have received money from the Mexican drug cartels through Costa Rica. However he made a few comments on the matter.
On Monday, Alvarado said he learned of the complaint through the Spanish newspaper and was to be advised.
I saw it, I will need more advise to see it in detail,”
said the President briefly this Monday after a public event in Los Guido, in Desamparados, after which he did not want to give any more statements.
This Sunday, ABC said that, apparently, the cash was in payment for drug shipments sent by chavismo leaders.
According to the publication based on information provided by a “collaborator” who would have participated in investigations by the US Department of the Treasury and other Washington agencies, the cash was allegedly camouflaged in food shipments leaving Mexico to port Limón, where the Venezuelan state-owned Alunasa company has a terminal.
The money would have come to accounts in Russian banks linked to the leaders Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela and Tarek el Aissami, vice president of Economy.
The complaint adds that the money would have arrived in Costa Rica in shipments managed by El Sardinero Es Servicio, SA, a Mexican company that exports food to Venezuela for an assistance plan of the Maduro regime. The Spanish media says that the containers with food left the port of Veracruz and made a stop in Puerto Limón, instead of making a direct route to La Guaira, in Venezuela.
It should be mentioned that, in June 2018, the National Bank (BN) closed the bank accounts related to the company, after the United States Department of the Treasury issued an alert about an alleged money laundering through this company.