Billionaire probed for laundering now US ally

The Manila Times 18 h Philippines

CARACAS/MIAMI — The billionaire who helped broker the Trump administration’s sweeping long-term oil deal with Venezuela was until recently a target of US money-laundering investigations involving funds embezzled from the state-owned oil company PDVSA. Now, after assisting US authorities ahead of the capture of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, Alejandro Betancourt is Washington&rsqu

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