Румен Стоянов ОВЧАРОВ Ovcharov served as a Bulgarian member of parliament (MP) and is currently a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) National Council. Ovcharov was also the minister responsible for energy in the late 1990s and again in the mid-2000s. He is accused of “extensive involvement in corruption” namely by repeatedly engaging in …
Velazquez is the current Vice-President of Paraguay and is accused of engaging in corruption and threats to obstruct justice, protect himself and his criminal associates. He is also accused of having ties to members of Hizballah, a Lebanese Islamist political party and militant group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Terrorist …
Horacio Cartes is one of the wealthiest individuals in Paraguay and was President of the country from 2013 to 2018. He is suspected of having engaged in corruption before, during and after his term as President of Paraguay, mainly by allegedly bribing potential supporters, officials and policymakers for their loyalty and to ensure his interests. …
Karim Keita is accused of having used his position as chairman of the National Assembly’s Security and Defense Commission to embezzle defence spending, secure bribes, and redirect contracts to his associates. Through his father, the former Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Karim Keita allegedly arranged to remove officials who did not support his corruption from …
Chang was the Guatemalan Minister of Energy and Mines from 2016 to 2020, under the government of Jimmy Morales. He was also the head of the board of the National Electrification Institute of Guatemala (INDE). He allegedly solicited bribes and other favours in exchange for not revoking an oil exploitation licence. According to the U.S. …
Vargas is a member of the Guatemalan Congress and one of the individuals supposedly operating a network designed to control contracts and operations at government-run ports for personal profit. He is accused of engaging in bribery at the centre of Congress, around the functioning of ports and allocation of contracts. According to the U.S. Treasury, …
Rodriguez was the President of the Congress of Guatemala from 2020 to 2022 and is accused of awarding construction grants in exchange for financial kickbacks. According to the U.S. Treasury, he has also used his political influence to strike deals in exchange for bribes and facilitated bribes to others, including, for example, by allegedly offering …
Rolando Castro is accused of using his position as Minister of Labor to influence unions to align with his Ministry’s interests. It is alleged that those who agreed were provided benefits such as expedited processing of their credentials or favoured access for international travel, while those who refused were exposed to harassment, retaliation and delayed …
Conan Castro is part of Nayib Bukele’s governmental administration, as the Presidential legal secretary. He is accused of using this position for personal gains, as well as obstructing investigations into misappropriations of public funds during the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Castro was already part of the U.S. Engel list, since July 2021, as …
IIan Şor Ilan Shor is the Chairman of the Şor Party in Moldova, a populist opposition party, and is suspected of being one of the main beneficiaries of the 2014 Moldovan Bank Fraud Scandal. Shor was accused of bribery to secure his position as chair of the Banca de Economii in 2014 and fled Moldova …
