Venezuela's chief prosecutor said Tuesday that he had placed former state oil company boss Rafael Ramirez under investigation for corruption.
"We have decided to open a criminal investigation into citizen Rafael Ramirez," prosecutor Tarek William Saab said on state television.
Ramirez led PDVSA for a decade before becoming Venezuela's ambassador to the UN, a post from which he resigned lastRead more
Caracas' ambassador to the United Nations, Rafael Ramirez, said in a letter released Tuesday he was standing down at the request of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, as a feud between the two worsened.
Ramirez had long been seen as a target of Maduro's aggressive push to consolidate power in the run-up to next year's presidential elections in the crisis-wracked SouthRead more
Ambassador Rafael Ramirez Carreno, permanent representative of Venezuela to the United Nations and rotating President of the Security Council of February, addresses the press after the 15-nation UN body reviewed the first report by an investigative mechanism to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York, Feb. 22, 2016. The UN Security CouncilRead more