The oil executive Luis Giusti Lugo was dismissed of the board of directors of the Citgo Petroleum refinery. This was reported on Monday by Horacio Medina, head of the board to this of POS.
“The board of directors of Citgo Holding agreed unanimously two weeks ago to call for his resignation”, He pointed out without explaining what this decision was due to, which was formally notified to him last Friday.
Citgo, the US branch of the Venezuelan state-owned company PDVSA, is controlled by the Venezuelan opposition through a chain of supervisory boards, the news agency reported. Archyde.com.
Giusti Lugo, son of a former president of Petróleos de Venezuela, had replaced CEO Carlos Jorda in a Citgo board shakeup last June. That led to five appointments linked to different Venezuelan opposition parties, several of whom have left.
Last month, Robert Kent joined the directory of Citgo Petroleum. Archyde.com noted that on Monday Citgo no longer listed Giusti Lugo as a member of its board.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the news agency. Nor has he published information regarding what happened on his Twitter account, where he used to share information related to Citgo.
Linked to Alex Saab?
Assemblyman Fernando Villavicencio Valencia, president of the Oversight Commission in the National Assembly of Ecuador, assured in December of last year that Álvaro Pulido, partner of Colombian Alex Saab, and Luis Sánchez, former executive of the Global Construction Fund, traveled to that country in March 2013 in the company of Luis Giusti Lugo.
The information, which is part of the Congressional investigations on the plot of fictitious exports through the Sucre system, it was brought to the attention of the prosecutors of the United States, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
The flight, according to the inquiries, fulfilled a Bogotá-Quito-Cuenca itinerary. In addition, Carlos León Ponte, owner of the Cefis Securities House; the banker Guillermo Montefusco; Luis Giusti López (father), former president of Petróleos de Venezuela. All of Venezuelan nationality.
Villavicencio pointed out that the purpose of the trip was a meeting with Nasib Neme and the Eljuri group, with whom they allegedly had business dealings within the fictitious exports to Venezuelareviewed the Ecuadorian media The time.
URGENT: The partner of #AlexSaab , Álvaro Pulido and Luis Sánchez (Foglocons) visited Ecuador on private flight N1459A, in March 2013, accompanied by Luis Giusti Lugo, CEO of CITGO, the PDVSA branch in the USA. Saab’s network of powerful relationships is confirmed. ???? pic.twitter.com/ayWlzfGlu2
– Fernando Villavicencio Valencia (@VillaFernando_) December 1, 2021
