In 2017, PDVSA was at the centre of a scandal which involved more than 50 of its employees suspected of embezzling USD 200 million from the company’s funds. Moreover, in 2014, Julius Baer carried out a USD 71 million transaction for a Venezuelan client, without investigating it properly, even though the bank knew that the client was facing accusations of corruption.
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