Don't know who Juan S. Montes is? Maybe you should...
The senior PDVSA manager (a.k.a. “Black”) is fingered for pocketing some US$35.7 million in bribes from Francisco Illarramendi to make his PDVSA Ponzi Scheme possible. Much more detail in this International Consortium of Investigative Journalists report. Unfortunately, the names of the government officials allegedly extorting Illarramendi himself are not public yet.
Update: Dang, I was asleep at the wheel. Setty and Miguel had the details months ago…
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