Maria Alexandra Perdomo and her husband,
Raul Gorrin, were among seven individuals sanctioned in January for allegedly
running a graft network that stole $2.4 billion from state coffers through
corrupt currency deals. Her removal from the blacklist Tuesday, along with the
wife of Gorrin’s brother-in-law and business partner, Raul Perdomo, suggests
the two women may be co-operating with U.S. authorities trying to untangle the
web of corruption that proliferated during two decades of socialist rule in
Venezuela. Prosecutors in Miami indicted Gorrin last year on charges of bribing
Venezuelan officials. More…
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