Two people have been arrested in the police operation that was carried out this Friday against the money laundering of people linked to the Venezuelan regime and in which four searches were carried out in luxury areas in Madrid.
According to legal sources, the two detainees, whose identity has not been revealed, could be brought to justice next Monday.
The police operation, carried out by agents from the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF), has been directed by the judge of the National Court Joaquín Gadea, in cooperation with the authorities of Portugal and the United States, legal sources have reported.
Most of the searches have been carried out in homes located in the Salamanca neighborhood and in the La Finca urbanization of Pozuelo de Alarcón. In this case, which remains secret, crimes of money laundering, international bribery and criminal organization are being investigated.
This investigation revolves around José Roberto Rincón Bravo, whose father, Venezuelan tycoon Roberto Rincón, is being investigated in the United States for deriving and laundering more than one billion from the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
José Roberto Rincón, whose home in La Finca would be one of those registered this Friday, was already arrested in 2018 in another police operation against money laundering from PDVSA in a case being investigated by another court of the National Court, the Central Court of Instruction. number 3, of which Judge María Tardón is the holder.
On that occasion, an agricultural farm called La Losilla, in Villarejo de Salbanés, owned by Rincón, was intervened, as well as its bank accounts were blocked.
