Editing Nicolás Maduro (section)

===Corruption===
Maduro's most serious corruption plan consisted of the embezzlement of the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA). In 2015, the Financial Crime Control Network (FinCEN) of the US Department of the Treasury issued a ruling under Section 311 of the US PATRIOT Act. (USA PATRIOT Act). A European bank accepted exorbitant commissions to process approximately US $ 2 billion in transactions related to third-party money launderers, fictitious companies and complex financial products to divert funds from PDVSA.
In 2018, a US $ 1.2 billion money laundering plan that involved Matthias Krull, a German citizen and a Panamanian resident, and Gustavo Adolfo Hernández, a Colombian citizen and a naturalized US citizen, exploited PdVSA and took advantage of corruption in the systems of Foreign currency exchange of Venezuela by exchanging US dollars for Venezuelan bolivars at market prices and then investing the exchange.
In 2016, Maduro declared that approximately 12% of the country was part of an "Orinoco Mining Arc" and was given extensive authority to oversee the exploitation of resources for personal gain. In 2017, the regime expelled legitimate foreign companies engaged in commercial activities and replaced them with unregulated miners who operated with the support of senior Venezuelan military officers.
In 2017, after a seven-month investigation, the National Assembly of Venezuela discovered cases in which the regime “spent” US $ 42 for a food box, which it then distributed in exchange for votes, at a time when those foods cost less than US $ 13. Maduro's internal circle kept the difference, which amounted to more than US $ 200 million in at least one case.
Venezuela ranks 169th out of 180 countries in the 2017 Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International.
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