United States v. Jesus Ramon Veroes and Luis Alberto Chacin Haddad (S.D. Fla. 2019)
United States v. Luis Alfredo Motta Dominguez and Eustiquio Jose Lugo Gomez (S.D. Fla.2019)

• Case Name
• United States v. Jesus Ramon Veroes and Luis Alberto Chacin Haddad (S.D. Fla. 2019)
  United States v. Luis Alfredo Motta Dominguez and Eustiquio Jose Lugo Gomez (S.D. Fla.2019)

• Date Filed
• 03/15/2019

• Enforcement Agency
• DOJ

• Foreign Official
• Government officials working for Corpoelec, namely Dominguez and Gomez.

• Date of Conduct
• 2016 to 2018

• Nature of Business
• Corporación Eléctrica Nacional, S.A., or Corpoelec, was Venezuela’s state-owned electricity company. Luis Alfredo Motta Dominguez, a Venezuelan citizen, was the Minister of Electrical Energy in Venezuela and the President of Corpoelec. Eustiquio Jose Lugo Gomez, likewise a citizen of Venezuela, was the director of procurement at Corpoelec.
  
  Luis Alberto Chacin Haddad, also a citizen of Venezuela, owned and managed two companies registered in Florida and headquartered in Miami that sought to supply equipment to Corpoelec. Jesus Ramon Veroes is a Venezuelan citizen who assisted Haddad in submitting contract bids to Corpoelec.

• Influence to be Obtained
• According to the DOJ, Haddad and Veroes made corrupt payments to Corpoelec officials to retain and obtain contracts for Haddad’s companies for the sale of forklifts, transformers, generators, and lightbulbs. Veroes and Haddad were involved in a money laundering scheme to conceal the payments.
  
  The DOJ alleges that as foreign officials at Corpoelec, Dominguez and Gomez received bribes from Haddad and Veroes to award multiple contracts for the supply of equipment to Corpoelec. The contracts were valued at over $60 million. Haddad, Veroes, and an unnamed co-conspirator allegedly inflated the price of the contracts to increase their own profits. The DOJ alleges that from approximately 2016 to 2018, all four individuals conspired to launder the proceeds of the bribe payments, totaling over $742,000.

• Enforcement
• On March 15, 2019, in a criminal complaint, the DOJ charged Veroes and Haddad with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Both defendants waived their rights to be indicted by a grand jury.
  
  On June, 24 2019, both Haddad and Veroes pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and agreed to forfeit $5.5 million each. On September 26, 2019, Haddad was sentenced to fifty-one months in prison and two years of supervised release. On October 29, 2019, Veroes was also sentenced to fifty-one months in prison and two years of supervised release.
  
  On June 27, 2019, three days after Haddad and Veroes pleaded guilty, the DOJ charged Dominguez and Gomez with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and seven counts of money laundering. The charges are pending.

• Amount of the Value
• Approximately $742,000.

• Amount of Business Related to Payment
• More than $60 million.

• Intermediary
• None.

• Citizenship of Parent Entity
• Venezuela

• Total Sanction
• $ 5,500,000

• Compliance Monitor
• No

• Reporting Requirements
• No

• Case is Pending?
• No

• Total Combined Monetary Sanction
• $ 11,000,000

Luis Alfredo Motta Dominguez

• Citation
• United States v. Dominguez & Gomez, No. 1:19-cr-20388 (S.D. Fla. 2019).

• Date Filed
• 06/27/2019

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• FCPA Statutory Provision

• Other Statutory Provision
• Conspiracy(Money Laundering) and Money Laundering.

• Disposition
• Pending

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Conspiracy

• Defendant's Citizenship
• Venezuela

• Individual Sanction
• Pending. 

Eustiquio Jose Lugo Gomez

• Citation
• United States v. Dominguez & Gomez, No. 1:19-cr-20388 (S.D. Fla. 2019).

• Date Filed
• 06/27/2019

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• FCPA Statutory Provision

• Other Statutory Provision
• Conspiracy(Money Laundering) and Money Laundering.

• Disposition
• Pending, Pending

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Unknown

• Defendant's Citizenship
• Venezuela

• Individual Sanction
• Pending. 

Luis Alberto Chacin Haddad

• Citation
• United States v. Veroes & Haddad, No. 1:19-cr-20351 (S.D. Fla. 2019). 

• Date Filed
• 07/15/2021

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• FCPA Statutory Provision

• Other Statutory Provision
• Conspiracy (Money Laundering).

• Disposition
• Plea Agreement, Plea Agreement

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Domestic Concern

• Defendant's Citizenship
• Venezuela

• Individual Sanction
• 51-month imprisonment; $5.5 million forfeiture.

Jesus Ramon Veroes

• Citation
• United States v. Veroes & Haddad, No. 1:19-cr-20351 (S.D. Fla. 2019)

• Date Filed
• 03/15/2019

• Filed Under Seal
• No

• FCPA Statutory Provision

• Other Statutory Provision
• Conspiracy (Money Laundering).

• Disposition
• Plea Agreement, Plea Agreement

• Defendant Jurisdictional Basis
• Domestic Concern

• Defendant's Citizenship
• Venezuela

• Individual Sanction
• 51-month imprisonment; $5.5 million forfeiture.