ANOTHER THIEF FUGITIVE FOR DEFRAUDING PDVSA BUILDS AN ECOLOGICAL CITY IN PANAMA

At the cost of 154 thousand dollars for a small apartment of 70 square meters, the Green Valley consortium promises that their houses and buildings will be located in the middle of a pristine landscape: 190 hectares where there will be a lake, eight parks, wide sidewalks, bicycle lanes, sports and everything necessary to lead a life free of pollution, accompany the project carried out by the construction company.

And although so far in their networks show more photos of vegetation than culminated buildings, what is certain is that one of the proxies of the construction company is the Venezuelan Owen Marique Ramírez, another of the former directors of Pdvsa who cheated the oil company and Today he is a fugitive from Venezuelan justice.

The most unusual thing is that in the company that registered in Panama in 2015, the Spanish sociologist Carlos Malo de Molina appears as President, who has been sued in Spain for the non-payment of a loan of 1.7 million euros that a Madrid company , the Real Estate Equity Portfolio, he had granted and never paid. This person - an expert in electoral surveys - told El Confidencial de España that he had decided to build smart cities in Panama and "was looking for partners" for his multi-million dollar investment. And it was probably where he fished Venezuelan Owen Manrique.

"The bad business in Panama, where an urban development was going to be built, did not end well and Carlos Malo de Molina ended up losing eight properties ...", reported in 2016 El Pais de Madrid, coincidentally one year after the fugitive Manrique registered your real estate company in Panama next to this singular Spanish.

Manrique has an arrest warrant from April 2017, but strangely managed to flee the country the following month, on May 11, when he left for Panama. Right hand of Rafael Ramírez, he was a member of the board of directors of Pdvsa since 2005 and became president of Bariven in February 2014, when he received a detailed report in relation to a criminal scheme according to which Pdvsa was acquiring steel pipes. to the Chinese company Liaoning Northen Steel Pipes with a premium of up to 114%.

But far from investigating the matter, the seven PDVSA managers who denounced the plot were dismissed by order of Manrique. It is estimated that only in this fraud, the price premium reached 35 million dollars. The following year, Manrique was promoted as Vice President of the Ministry of Mines and then, always under the tutelage of Ramírez, appointed nothing less than Director of Cencoex, the agency in charge of granting cheap dollars.

The truth is that the portal of the construction company that has in Panama does not induce confidence. Only nice drawings of the future that will be built and some pictures not at all advantageous of the progress of the project, three years after the company was founded. Perhaps the Spaniard also cheated Manrique and the money he took from PDVSA went to the hands of another of his peers.