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spanza

(507 posts)
Sun May 26, 2013, 06:56 AM May 2013

Full transcript of Mario Silva's recording

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Now, speaking about devaluation, the big issue, the very [Planning Minister Jorge] Giordani said, was the flight of capital through firms, some of them front firms, some others in line with Diosdado Cabello, through Cadivi. The allocation of foreign currency that went out and intended, put it in inverted commas, to make deals of private businesses and it turned out that they would spent a portion and sell the remaining portion. There was flight of capital and this caused the exaggerate difference between the price at [VEB] 4.30 and the other price. Can you see it?

Who were involved in such money laundering? Barroso (Cadivi) and Seniat.

------- PALACIOS : Cadivi and...

MARIO SILVA: Exactly, Cadivi and Seniat. Next a number of portfolio companies came, many of them from Puerto Cabello, run by Disip former Director, [Carlos] Aguilera. Some of them were managed by him; building companies; all of them portfolio companies that had been granted US dollars and there was a bleeding, as the very Giordani said in a meeting with Commander Chávez. And [Trujillo state governor and ex-Minister of Defense Henry] Rangel Silva was present. Commander Chávez was allocating some foreign currency, and Rangel, I mean, and Giordani told Rangel: "I am getting out of here because these bastards are bleeding the country.""

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http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/130524/transcript-of-mario-silvas-recording

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Full transcript of Mario Silva's recording (Original Post) spanza May 2013 OP
Even in the first paragraph naaman fletcher May 2013 #1
 

naaman fletcher

(7,362 posts)
1. Even in the first paragraph
Sun May 26, 2013, 09:12 AM
May 2013

We see proof of what I have been saying for years

"Commander Chávez was allocating some foreign currency"

The whole point of the currency controls is favoritism and corruption. They serve no other purpose.

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