In the extradition request for Venezuelan Jose Luis Santoro, the former president of the collapsed Banco Peravia, National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso says that he has been linked to drug trafficking and money laundering. The Prosecutor has requested Santoro’s extradition along with another 11 individuals as part of investigations into the bank’s collapse. “The accused had links to the world of drug trafficking and money laundering through Police Captain Brezhnev Jimenez Jimenez, who is accused of drug trafficking and money laundering,” Reynoso told the press, as reported in Diario Libre.
Former director of the Office of Supervisory Engineers of Public Works (OISOE) Miguel Pimentel Kareh was also under investigation for his links to the collapsed bank.