The setting was idyllic: the Belmond La
Samanna resort on the French side of St. Martin. It’s a Caribbean retreat with
beach cabanas, tennis courts, and $1,000-a-night rooms. As guests enjoyed
alfresco massages and hammock cocktails that February afternoon, inside one
room everyone was all business. An engineer from the Venezuelan state oil
company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., set a 12-inch stack of documents on the
table, and the questions began from three investigators from the New York
County District Attorney’s Office. They’d flown him from Venezuela via
Curaçao—first commercial, then charter—to cover his tracks. More…
Friday, December 9, 2016
Why Witnesses to Venezuela’s Catastrophic Corruption Keep Turning Up in the U.S.
The setting was idyllic: the Belmond La
Samanna resort on the French side of St. Martin. It’s a Caribbean retreat with
beach cabanas, tennis courts, and $1,000-a-night rooms. As guests enjoyed
alfresco massages and hammock cocktails that February afternoon, inside one
room everyone was all business. An engineer from the Venezuelan state oil
company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., set a 12-inch stack of documents on the
table, and the questions began from three investigators from the New York
County District Attorney’s Office. They’d flown him from Venezuela via
Curaçao—first commercial, then charter—to cover his tracks. More…
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