(Trends Wide Spanish) –– Argentine businessman Luis Fernando Vuteff, allegedly linked to a money laundering scheme involving the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), was released Monday from a prison in Florida after complying with bail conditions, his attorney Ed Shohat told Trends Wide on Wednesday.
According to Shohat, bail for Vuteff, 51, included posting a condominium he owns in Miami as collateral and payment of $200,000.
A review by Trends Wide on Wednesday of the public registry of prisoners in US federal prisons showed that the defendant was already out of jail.
The lawyer added that Vuteff will be under house arrest and will be monitored electronically.
The businessman was arrested last August and, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in July, is accused of one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of the scheme to launder funds allegedly obtained illegally. corrupt PDVSA.
In the statement from the Prosecutor’s Office, the US authorities allege that, between December 2014 and August 2018, Vuteff conspired with others to launder the proceeds of an illegal bribery scheme using the US financial system, as well as several bank accounts located in the US. Foreign.
Vuteff also allegedly laundered illicit proceeds through a corrupt foreign currency exchange scheme that involved bribing Venezuelan officials, according to prosecutors.
This Wednesday, Shohat said that the defendant is going to plead not guilty to the charges.
PDVSA has not ruled until this Wednesday on the case. Trends Wide is trying to get a comment on it.
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(Trends Wide Spanish) –– Argentine businessman Luis Fernando Vuteff, allegedly linked to a money laundering scheme involving the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), was released Monday from a prison in Florida after complying with bail conditions, his attorney Ed Shohat told Trends Wide on Wednesday.
According to Shohat, bail for Vuteff, 51, included posting a condominium he owns in Miami as collateral and payment of $200,000.
A review by Trends Wide on Wednesday of the public registry of prisoners in US federal prisons showed that the defendant was already out of jail.
The lawyer added that Vuteff will be under house arrest and will be monitored electronically.
The businessman was arrested last August and, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in July, is accused of one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of the scheme to launder funds allegedly obtained illegally. corrupt PDVSA.
In the statement from the Prosecutor’s Office, the US authorities allege that, between December 2014 and August 2018, Vuteff conspired with others to launder the proceeds of an illegal bribery scheme using the US financial system, as well as several bank accounts located in the US. Foreign.
Vuteff also allegedly laundered illicit proceeds through a corrupt foreign currency exchange scheme that involved bribing Venezuelan officials, according to prosecutors.
This Wednesday, Shohat said that the defendant is going to plead not guilty to the charges.
PDVSA has not ruled until this Wednesday on the case. Trends Wide is trying to get a comment on it.
