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The US Justice Department quietly shut down a probe into a Venezuelan businessman with ties to Trump's oil deal

Trump administration quietly closes criminal probe into Venezuela businessman amid oil deal | CNN Politics

For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been ensnared in the tentacles of a sprawling Justice Department probe into a sophisticated billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US prosecutors allege embezzled funds from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company known as PDVSA.

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