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Venezuela jailed two officials from the state oil company PDVSA for five years for giving the United States “strategic and sensitive” details of its sanctions-hit oil operations, aso Naija gathered.
Alfredo Chirinos, the company’s special policies chief, and Aryenis Torrealba, PDVSA’s general manager of crude operations, were arrested last year.
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They “were sentenced to five years in prison for the crime of disclosing, reserving or supplying information,” said a statement signed by the attorney general, Tarek William Saab.
Venezuela’s oil production closed 2020 at just over 400,000 barrels per day, the lowest in decades, a fall which experts attribute to years of corruption and mismanagement in the country’s main industry.
