Venezuela central bank denies Mafia involvement/ Banco Central de Venezuela niega vinculación a estafa de Mafia

Venezuela's central bank on Friday denied Italian prosecutors' accusations that its staff had participated in an attempted $1 billion bond scam run by the Sicilian Mafia. Prosecutors in Italy said on Friday that corrupt central bank officials had authenticated fake bonds that were to be used to open credit lines with banks, including HSBC Holdings ( full information)/ El Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) negó el viernes que funcionarios del emisor hubiesen autenticado bonos falsos en un intento de estafa de 1.000 millones de dólares de la mafia siciliana, luego de que autoridades italianas bloquearan la operación ( información completa)