The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, regretted this Thursday the results of investigations that had been carried out on the trail of a group of corrupt officials in PDVSA, specifically in the area of domestic gas distribution.
The national president commented that some serious complaints had been reviewed for some time, then a rigorous chain of investigation was followed, which was put in the hands of the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, to carry out the procedure.
The dignitary also stated that the truth of the allegations of "privatization of tankers, backroom negotiations, sale in dollars of gas that belongs to the people and a thousand other irregularities" was confirmed.
He announced that former officials Jacob Gray, former president of Gas Comunal PDVSA, Yohandry José Guevara Álvarez, former manager of the Charallave gas filling plant, among other senior officials who acted in complicity with this network of corruption that commercialized and extorted money by selling gas in foreign currency.
“What hurts me the most is that they are young people to whom we gave that responsibility. How was that young man corrupted? ”Reflected President Maduro, lamenting that former officials have deviated along the way.
Maduro stressed that it is essential to combat bureaucracy, corruption and infiltrators in the oil industry, referring to the irregular handling of domestic gas on a national scale.
"It was explained to them that this was the town's gas, popular gas ... and they didn't care," he said.
In this sense, the Head of State recommended within the framework of the installation of the People's Congress from the La Montaña Barracks, that "it is important to activate and reactivate all these social movements" in order to "guarantee absolute honesty in the fulfillment of public functions. Rescue permanent renewal of spirituality and morality. Our word must be supported in our history, with real events ”, he commented.
Earlier, the Public Ministry issued arrest warrants against the members of a corruption network in the company Gas Comunal, a PDVSA subsidiary, which was engaged in the collection of illegal commissions in dollars for the filling of gas cylinders to fuel distribution companies.
The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, specified that the arrest warrants were issued against Jacob Gray, president of Gas Comunal PDVSA; Yohandry José Guevara Álvarez, manager of the Charallave gas filling plant; Oriana Alejandra Betancourt Corales, manager of the Apacuana gas filling plant, and Eder Alexis Dugarte, manager of the El Tambor gas filling plant.
"These officials demanded payment in commission dollars for filling each cylinder, in addition to the cost in bolivars that was paid to the company's account," he explained.
