Allegations of money laundering maneuvers in PDVSA of Argentina – 02/02/2019

Former director of PDVSA, Gonzalo Brusa Dovat, denounced that the Argentine branch of the Venezuelan oil company was "Used to triangulate and wash foreign currency" with the complicity of K officials and a Uruguayan relationship. In an exclusive interview with ClarinBrusa Dovat – who was logistics director of PDVSA Argentina between 2010 and 2014 – explained the so-called triangulation of purchases with ENARSA, other fuel thieves destined to be marketed in Argentina and the sale of naphtha at lower prices in the service market which are in the name of frontmen. Brusa Dovat claimed that he was giving up the business "Under the threat", after Maduro sent his own directors to replace those whom Chávez had named. He gave the names of his Argentine interlocutors who answered "At the Ministry of Planning" headed by Julio De Vido, among others.

– Do you know any irregularities in the affairs of PDVSA in Argentina?

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-After the scandal of the loss of Antonini Wilson with $ 800,000, Diego Uzcátegui is expelled from PDVSA Argentina and a process is under way to install the brand in Argentina in badociation with ENARSA. PDVSA Argentina held 47.5% of the oil shares of Cono Sur S.A. And the Uruguayan state company Ancap had a 45 and the rest of the shares were sold on the stock market. An agreement was reached with 117 service stations in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Córdoba. But in 2010, ANCAP sold its shares to PDVSA Argentina for 1 dollar. Between 2006 and 2009, the fuel was purchased at YPF-Repsol. But in 2010, it began to import diesel, to buy naphtha Axtion and to supply petrol stations. I am the head of logistics and purchasing. The central office of PDVSA chose the company that would buy the tankers, mainly Swiss … A large Argentine law firm would be the representative of this Swiss company in Argentina.

– But how were the maneuvers?

-I need to give you another introduction. Releases of fuel always result in a loss, a loss for what is left, for example, stuck in the hoses used by the ships. The average loss generally accepted is 5%, but I had to be 3%. On average, there were about 200 cubic meters per ship that were not loaded into the official trucks, but in others that diverted them where the PDVSA capos wanted for their private businesses. They earned about $ 200,000 per boat and, with an average of about 24 per year, they cost us $ 4,800,000 a year. On the other hand, many of these boats were not bought directly by PDVSA Argentina, but by ENARSA, and then we bought them from ENARSA. The former president of ENARSA Exequiel Espinosa and its director, Marcela Tagle, are aware of these purchases.

– And the other maneuvers supposed how were they?

– The capitals of PDVSA Argentina and an important legal study which, for the moment, I can not name it, had, through the intermediary of representatives, their own service stations. They sent them fuels with 40% cheaper prices. And the third maneuver I know is that PDVSA's central office sent grants to PDVSA Argentina between 2010 and 2012 every month to buy oil tankers whereas, in reality, with the profits, the fuels of the first ships could have been used. paid the following because it worked like a financial wheel. They have kept between $ 25 and $ 50 million a year, depending on the year. All these "profits" have left the country illegally to destinations that I do not know but that can be investigated via the personal accounts of these characters.

Do you know which banks, financial wineries or financial wineries operated PDVSA Argentina?

The official accounts were managed by Banco Nación, where the trust was located, as well as by the banks Galicia, Francés, Macro and Credicoop. But I do not know with what financial cellars they handled black money.

What fate did they give to this black money?

It was a millionaire "box" that I think they used for politics and their personal pockets.

The Venezuelans who ran PDVSA Argentina with which Argentine officials were they treated?

With those of the Ministry of Planning, the Energy Secretariat and also with Walter Fagías of ENARSA.

Who were these Venezuelan bosses who run the businesses?

They were mainly Angel Morales, now living in Tenerife, and Nelson Martínez, who recently died in the United States. Angel Morales was sent after the 2007 baggage scandal and his replacement in 2011 was Martinez. Morales, they told me, they expelled him after he complained of a bribe percentage. Martinez was a chemical engineer who had helped Chavez during the 2002 coup during the surveillance against PDVSA, and then took over the presidency of the Argentine branch. After Nicolás Maduro replaced Chávez in 2013, he changed his policy. Before the president, the vice president and the main officials were Venezuelans. With Maduro, the officials were sent to the lower levels and they threw me with 7 other colleagues. When Martinez leaves the United States to head CITGO in 2014, Morales will be appointed external advisor to President Miguel Tarazona at the time, and will start persecuting us. I received a different clamping. Phone threats to my youngest daughter at the follow-ups, they left a car parked in front of the house for days.

Do you think he was threatened by SEVIN, the secret service chaviste?

I do not know with proof, but the Embbady in Buenos Aires and the PDVSA branch are influenced by SEVIN.

Explain how it happens that Ancap Uruguay sold its shares of Petrolera Cono Sur to PDVSA for one dollar.

It was under the presidency of Pepe Mujica. When Raúl Sendic was president of Ancap, this operation was carried out. Sendic, then vice president of Tabaré Vázquez, then resigned for another scandal. The truth is that Angel Morales, after being removed from office in Argentina, moved to Uruguay and set up a company selling cereals and other products in Venezuela. His partner in this company was a certain Mollo and Carlos Veríssimo was his partner in other companies. Veríssimo is the right arm of the mayor of Maldonado, Enrique Antia. Last year, Angel Morales, who was no longer supported, went to live in Mayorca where he sent me threats, such as "You'll be dead in Tucumán".

Do you have any documentation that corroborates your sayings?

I have the documentation and the mails kept under seven keys and the names of Venezuelan personalities that I will give them if they call me for justice to be done.