Roberto Leyba never loses his mind (or reasonable connections).

The four invoices are about 1.05 million euros. All of them registered the same concept: “Financial Advisory and Professional Services”. All are issued by Chokmah LLC, a company registered in Florida, United States, for Venat International Advisors KFT, a law firm registered in Delaware, also a type of tax haven in the United States.

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The invoices, to which, among other documents, Armando.info has access, describe payments from 2019: 280,000 euros on August 5; 398,350 euros on September 11; 233,040 euros on September 23; and 135,000 euros on December 5. million or so mentioned at the beginning.

The papers, which could pass as proof of regular payments, actually reveal a scheme in which Julio Ernesto Mendoza, registered owner of Chokmah LLC, owner of Corporación Berakah, CA, a gold production company in Venezuela, acts as a front for some. Businesses of KFT, owner of Venatt International Advisors. His name is Roberto Antonio Tadeo Leyba Morales.

Vennatt has its origins in a contraction of two words: Venezuelan attorney, the initial name of a law firm based in the United States, opposite Leyba, a jurist, businessman, Venezuelan state contractor and, at times, partner of Maria Gabriela Chávez, second daughter of the late President Hugo Chávez.

Besides his past love affair with the former president’s daughter, Leyba knew how to position his law firm in various key areas, always close to the power centers of the Chavista-Madurista government. As he took control of the Naviera Paraguayan company, he led the judicial defense of members of the Paraguayan Cartel, the so-called drug-trafficking gangs. This ability made him to litigate various cases even reported in media known case file like PDVSA-Crypto.

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