Guilty plea in PDVSA FCPA case
A partial owner of several energy companies pleaded guilty this week to foreign bribery charges for his role in a scheme to corruptly secure contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
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