因涉嫌美国两起贿赂案,曾在维多集团(Vitol Group)担任石油交易员的哈维尔·阿吉拉尔在联邦法院认罪,刑期可能长达40年,罚金也超过710万美元。
联邦检察官在一份声明中表示,今年2月,50岁的阿吉拉尔在纽约布鲁克林曾被判精心策划行贿墨西哥和厄瓜多尔官员,8月21日他又对另一起指控认罪,从而两起案件合并。如此一来美国纽约布鲁克林地区法官埃里克·维塔利亚诺可对两起诉讼作出判决。
第二起指控在得克萨斯州提起,两起案件中阿吉拉尔被指犯有共谋、外国贿赂和洗钱罪。在布鲁克林,检察官指控他为了获得5亿美元的业务,在酒店、机场甚至停车场用现金行贿。
“今天被告认罪时承认自己参与了国际大宗商品市场中的广泛腐败,抛弃了适用于所有人的法律和规则,不公平地为少数人中饱私囊,”布鲁克林美国检察官布雷恩·皮斯在一份声明中表示。
得克萨斯州的五项指控中,前经理兼石油交易员阿吉拉尔被指串通并行贿墨西哥国家石油公司(PEMEX)国际采购部的墨西哥官员。
阿吉拉尔的律师伊莲娜·贾罗斯劳表示,认罪后当事人面临的未决指控都已解决。
“阿吉拉尔对自己在维多的工作承担责任,相信维塔利亚诺法官会做出公正判决,”贾罗斯劳在声明中表示。
2020年,全球最大的独立石油贸易商维多与美国司法部就三个国家行贿的指控达成1.6亿美元和解协议。2020年,阿吉拉尔被指在维多休斯顿子公司工作期间策划了为期五年的贿赂和洗钱计划。
得克萨斯州的案件是美国司法部诉阿吉拉尔案,案件编号23-cr-00335,美国得克萨斯州南区地方法院(休斯顿)。(财富中文网)
译者:梁宇
审校:夏林
因涉嫌美国两起贿赂案,曾在维多集团(Vitol Group)担任石油交易员的哈维尔·阿吉拉尔在联邦法院认罪,刑期可能长达40年,罚金也超过710万美元。
联邦检察官在一份声明中表示,今年2月,50岁的阿吉拉尔在纽约布鲁克林曾被判精心策划行贿墨西哥和厄瓜多尔官员,8月21日他又对另一起指控认罪,从而两起案件合并。如此一来美国纽约布鲁克林地区法官埃里克·维塔利亚诺可对两起诉讼作出判决。
第二起指控在得克萨斯州提起,两起案件中阿吉拉尔被指犯有共谋、外国贿赂和洗钱罪。在布鲁克林,检察官指控他为了获得5亿美元的业务,在酒店、机场甚至停车场用现金行贿。
“今天被告认罪时承认自己参与了国际大宗商品市场中的广泛腐败,抛弃了适用于所有人的法律和规则,不公平地为少数人中饱私囊,”布鲁克林美国检察官布雷恩·皮斯在一份声明中表示。
得克萨斯州的五项指控中,前经理兼石油交易员阿吉拉尔被指串通并行贿墨西哥国家石油公司(PEMEX)国际采购部的墨西哥官员。
阿吉拉尔的律师伊莲娜·贾罗斯劳表示,认罪后当事人面临的未决指控都已解决。
“阿吉拉尔对自己在维多的工作承担责任,相信维塔利亚诺法官会做出公正判决,”贾罗斯劳在声明中表示。
2020年,全球最大的独立石油贸易商维多与美国司法部就三个国家行贿的指控达成1.6亿美元和解协议。2020年,阿吉拉尔被指在维多休斯顿子公司工作期间策划了为期五年的贿赂和洗钱计划。
得克萨斯州的案件是美国司法部诉阿吉拉尔案,案件编号23-cr-00335,美国得克萨斯州南区地方法院(休斯顿)。(财富中文网)
译者:梁宇
审校:夏林
Javier Aguilar, former oil trader for Vitol Group, departs federal court in Brooklyn in 2024.
Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Ex-Vitol Group oil trader Javier Aguilar faces as much as 40 years in prison and will forfeit more than $7.1 million in two U.S. bribery cases after entering a guilty plea in federal court.
Aguilar, 50, had already been convicted in Brooklyn, New York, in February of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to bribe Mexican and Ecuadorian officials, but he pleaded guilty to a second set of charges Wednesday, consolidating the two cases, federal prosecutors said in a statement. The move allows US District Judge Eric Vitaliano to impose the sentence in both prosecutions.
In both cases — the second one was initially filed in Texas — Aguilar was accused of violating conspiracy, foreign bribery and money laundering charges. In Brooklyn, prosecutors alleged that he gave out cash payments at hotels, airports, and even in a parking lot as part of a scheme to win $500 million in business.
“With today’s guilty plea the defendant admits his role in the widespread corruption of the international commodities market and to casting aside laws and rules that apply to all to unfairly line the pockets of the few,” Brooklyn US Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement.
The five-count Texas indictment accused Aguilar, a former manager and oil trader, of colluding to bribe Mexican officials working for PEMEX Procurement International.
Ilene Jaroslaw, a lawyer for Aguilar, said the plea resolves all of the pending charges against her client.
“Mr. Aguilar acknowledged responsibility for his role at Vitol, and we have confidence that Judge Vitaliano will impose a fair sentence,” Jaroslaw said in a statement.
Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, agreed in 2020 to a $160 million settlement with the DOJ over allegations that it paid bribes in three countries. Aguilar was charged in 2020 with orchestrating a five-year bribery and money-laundering scheme while working at Vitol’s subsidiary in Houston.
The Texas case is US v. Aguilar, 23-cr-00335, US District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston).