Venezuelan Graft Scheme

It's surely in Russia's interest that Venezuela can keep its lights on. Russian oil firm Rosneft is a key backer of PdVSA, the state-controlled oil firm that hangs like a loose tooth in Latin America's biggest basket case economy. But on Friday, the bank of Russian gas firm Gazprom says there was no dark money schemes being employed to prop up the struggling nation run by the Socialists United of Venezuela. More…