Venezuela jails officials for giving US oil data

Venezuela jailed two officials from the state oil company PDVSA for five years for providing the US with "strategic and sensitive" details of its sanctions-hit oil operations, prosecutors said Friday.

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Venezuelan Navy frigates were used to escort Iranian tankers carrying badly needed fuel to port in Venezuela. PHOTO: VENEZUELAN PRESIDENCY / AFP

Shahudha Mohamed

2021-02-06 13:28:21

Venezuela jailed two officials from the state oil company PDVSA for five years for providing the US with "strategic and sensitive" details of its sanctions-hit oil operations, prosecutors said Friday.

Alfredo Chirinos, the company's special operations chief, and Aryenis Torrealba, PDVSA's general manager of crude operations, were arrested last year.

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