{"id":10933,"date":"2023-04-14T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/colombian-businessman-arrested-in\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:34:34","slug":"colombian-businessman-arrested-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/colombian-businessman-arrested-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian businessman arrested in Venezuela PDVSA graft probe: minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS (Reuters) &#8211;     Venezuelan authorities have arrested Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, Venezuela&#8217;s communications minister said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pulido was a financial operator linked to lawmaker Hugbel Roa, also arrested in connection with alleged corruption at PDVSA, Communications Minister Freddy Nanez wrote on Twitter, without giving further details. <\/p>\n<p>There have been dozens of arrests in recent weeks as President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government clamps down on alleged graft. <\/p>\n<p>Over 50 people connected to PDVSA and other public companies have already been arrested. <\/p>\n<p>Pulido was detained along with at least six others and arraigned before a court, images broadcast on state television showed. <\/p>\n<p>The charges against them have not yet been outlined. <\/p>\n<p>Pulido is under indictment by the U.S., which is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction for alleged money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>He is an associate of another Colombian businessman and  close ally of Maduro, Alex Saab, who has been held in the U.S. since June 2020 on money laundering charges. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Mayela Armas; Writing by Steven Grattan; Editing by Josie Kao)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/colombian-businessman-arrested-in\/file-photo-rally-against-corruption-and-in-support-of-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3D0NU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3D0NU-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuelan authorities have arrested Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, Venezuela&#8217;s communications minister said on Friday. Pulido was a financial operator linked to lawmaker Hugbel Roa, also arrested in connection with alleged corruption at PDVSA, Communications Minister Freddy Nanez wrote on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3D0NU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}