( October 30, 2026, 22:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Javier Alvarado-Ochoa, the former president of Bariven SA, sued the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, an accounting firm and others in US federal court, seeking to "hold American professionals accountable for lending their credentials to a foreign frame-up." The defendants worked together to bring counterfeit evidence to a court in Spain and manufacture charges against an executive who exposed a corruption scheme at Venezuela’s state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, according to the lawsuit.Document attached....
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