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PDVSA ex-executive admits taking bribes in guilty plea in U.S. court

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018

A former finance executive of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA accepted $17 million in bribes as part of a broad embezzlement scheme, U.S. federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, in a case that implicates a French oil firm and a Russian bank.

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