White Collars, Dirty Hands: A podcast by OCCRP and La No Ficción
by The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
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<p>It’s Madrid, March 2017. A former official in Venezuela's oil ministry, a lawyer, and three financial advisors are meeting to discuss business. They want to move corruptly-obtained cash without anyone noticing. But little do they know, one of them is wearing a hidden microphone, and records the whole conversation, laying bare the mechanics of a plot to launder millions of dollars embezzled from Venezuela’s state oil company.</p><br><p>From OCCRP and the Colombian production company La No Ficción, this investigative series dissects this secret recording and the broader corruption scheme that siphoned off $1.2 billion from Venezuela's state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).</p><br><p>Across five episodes, it follows exiled Venezuelan journalist Laura Weffer as she tries to track down Carmelo Urdaneta, the former oil ministry official who plays a key role in the billion-dollar money laundering conspiracy.</p><br><p>The series also traces the human cost of this corrupti