June 20 2018
Last Wednesday, June 13, the Banco Nacional de Costa Rica (BNCR) closed all the bank accounts of the Alunasa company, owned by the Government of Venezuela, after the US Treasury Department issued an alert about an alleged money laundering operation through the company.
The rupture occurred after the U.S. concluded Diosdado Cabello, a strong man of the Nicolás Maduro regime, used Alunasa to legitimize, in Costa Rica – money coming from illegal activities– in December of 2016.
The alert from the U.S. was issued on May 18, 2018.