Verbal contracts, opaque transactions made through companies, labyrinthine schemes to hide the money trail and a loot transformed into exclusive homes. Luis Carlos de León Pérez, a former lawyer for Petróleos de Venezuela S. A. (PDVSA) and financial director of the state electricity company Electricidad de Caracas, collected $19 million from the network under investigation for plundering $2 billion from the Venezuelan public energy company, according to a report from the Financial Intelligence Unit of Andorra (Uifand) to which EL PAÍS has had access. The report is part of the investigation being conducted by a court in the European…
