{"id":522950,"date":"2022-09-19T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522950"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T04:24:17","slug":"venezuela-rearrests-brother-of-former-oil-czar-ramirez-in-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/venezuela-rearrests-brother-of-former-oil-czar-ramirez-in-corruption-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela rearrests brother of former oil czar Ramirez in corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela has thrown back in prison the brother of the country&#8217;s former oil czar as part of an ongoing investigation into a multi-billion dollar embezzlement scheme at the state-run oil company.<\/p>\n<p>Fidel Ramirez was arrested last Wednesday after failing to appear in court as required by the terms of his bail, Venezuela&#8217;s Attorney General Tarek William Saab said in a brief interview Sunday with The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez was originally arrested in early 2018 for his alleged involvement in a decade-old scheme to siphon to a bank account in the tiny European country of Andorra USD 2 billion from state-run oil giant PDVSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela has thrown back in prison the brother of the country&#8217;s former oil czar as part of an ongoing investigation into a multi-billion dollar embezzlement scheme at the state-run oil company. Fidel Ramirez was arrested last Wednesday after failing to appear in court as required by the terms of his bail, Venezuela&#8217;s Attorney General Tarek William Saab said in a brief interview Sunday with The Associated Press. Ramirez was originally arrested in early 2018 for his alleged involvement in a decade-old scheme to siphon to a bank account in the tiny European country of Andorra USD 2 billion from state-run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}