David Syed’s name is known by they raised more than $20 million in “legal advice” to Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), according to internal leaks. His relationship with Tareck el Aissami, until this Monday Minister of Oil, and Antonio Pérez Suárez, allowed him to investigate the Ministry of Finance of the government of Nicolás Maduro and to be aware of the audits of the oil company’s accounts and to inform its contractors.

According to the Caracas newspaper The national teamVice President Delcy Rodríguez’s Ecuadorian advisers were in charge of examining PDVSA’s information. It becomes hard to understand how they didn’t quickly find an embezzlement that could be between $3,000 and $5,000 million in lost shipments.

Syed kept up to date with El Aissami and Pérez Suárez, the ones withholding the most sensitive information.

While Armando. Info AND The national team They had detailed the PDVSA robberies of billions of dollars in stolen ships, the government of Nicolás Maduro still did not realize what was happening. The explanation is very simple: Syed worked as a double spy working for El Aissami and Pérez Suárez and reviewing accounts, and even making suggestions, to the Ministry of Finance.

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According to the stories The national teamSyed has spent the past two months trying to gain the trust of Vice President and Finance Minister Delcy Rodríguez’s Ecuadorian advisers so that he can continue to “represent the best interests of PDVSA and the Republic at the same time.”

Syed tries to break away from Pérez Suárez and El Aissami, who ordered payments for Dentons and Syed generated by crude intermediaries who left PDVSA today. On March 9, 2020, for example, they sent a payment of 500,486.40 euros on the Dentons account.

Other documents show how Pérez Suárez ordered the payment of 976,333 euros, which were credited to Dentons Europe account, demonstrating the existing contractual relationship.

During 2022 Dentos received from Pdvsa cash payments for 2.9 million euros. This is more money than the clinics received from employees of the state oil company.

Pérez Suárez, on the other hand, recorded debts in favor of Dentons for almost seven million euros.

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The resignation of El Aissami, a powerful ally of Maduro, sanctioned by the United States as a suspected drug lord– It came two days after the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced in a statement that the Attorney General’s Office has appointed five prosecutors to investigate alleged “unlawful acts,” investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Police, relating to “different branches and levels of Public Power” and which “affect strategic sectors for national development and the administration of justice”.

El Aissami, who held the interior ministry during the term of late President Hugo Chávez, was named oil minister on April 27, 2020. He had just held the position of vice president of the republic under Maduro.

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service incorporated El Aissami in 2020 to his list of the 10 most wanted fugitives. The now former minister was fined in 2017 for allegedly being a major drug trafficker and was indicted two years later on charges of violating those Washington-imposed sanctions.