Venezuela is waiting on Monday for the petition of information to the US about a laundering investigation that allegedly involves Venezuelans, according to versions of US officials.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolas Maduro informed that an official note, which requests cooperation to make progress in an investigation of the case, was handed in to an official at the US embassy to Caracas.
According to the American version, the Venezuelan currency parallel market, which is a mechanism criticized by Chavez, who ordered to suspend it so that the Central Bank would assume that responsibility, is being used to launder.
Venezuelan authorities consider that these irregularities are affecting the rate of the bolivars regarding the dollar and this mechanism could be used to launder the money coming from drug-trafficking or other illegal business.
Maduro pointed out that Venezuela waits for the handing over of facts with no delay considering that "our organs permanently cooperate in the deportation of drug-traffickers."
The US government informed the detection of a network that was operating in Puerto Rico, New York and Florida and was trading part of the money at the dollar parallel market in Venezuela.
Source: Inside
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