US charges Venezuelan TV news network owner in alleged $1.2 billion money laundering scheme

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that a Venezuelan television news network owner was charged in an alleged $1.2 billion money laundering scheme.

Raul Gorrin Belisario, 56, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida for his role in a scheme “to launder funds corruptly obtained from Venezuelaā€™s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, PetrĆ³leos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), in exchange for hundreds of millions in bribe payments to Venezuelan officials,” the Justice Department said.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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