Reward announcement comes after U.S. Justice Department accused Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido and four others of laundering proceeds of a bribery scheme
The U.S. State Department on Friday announced a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido over money-laundering charges in connection with an alleged Venezuela bribery scheme.
“Pulido and his co-conspirators allegedly marked-up the cost of producing the boxes of food in order to make a personal profit from their production,” the reward said. Pulido is a partner of fellow Colombian businessman Alex Saab, who is close to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and was extradited from Cape Verde to the United States on Oct. 16 to face money-laundering charges.
Pulido was also sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2019 and indicted alongside Saab over an alleged money-laundering scheme.
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