The former financial director of La Electricidad de Caracas, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA.

In 2017, he was arrested in Spain and extradited to the U.S. for his role in a sprawling bribery scheme within PDVSA. He pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks from businessmen in return for assistance and state contracts. He was also charged that same year in Andorra for laundering the proceeds through Banca Privada d’Andorra.

Read OCCRP’s investigation into how Venezuelan elites hid stolen oil money in Credit Suisse.