Exclusive: France's Perenco, Russia's Gazprombank named in Venezuela graft case - source

By Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anglo-French oil company Perenco and Russian financial firm Gazprombank have been identified in testimony by a former Venezuelan state oil company official who said he received millions of dollars in bribes in return for giving them preferential treatment, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. Abraham Ortega, a former financial executive at state oil company PDVSA, accepted $5 million in bribes to favour a French oil company and from a Russian bank, U.S

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