Labor employees of the managements of Venalum and directors walk “nervous” by the course of the investigations of the 2,063 retained tons of aluminum in Palúa, which point at certain nexuses between the workers of the company and the sales of the metal.

Natalie Garci'a
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The ones in charge of the investigated managements are afraid than he can happen in the next days

In this company it has “Core-runs” because the inquiries aim at an ample participation of the personnel of Venalum in this problem. Between the investigated ones are the labor directors, who are in charge to do them inspection and to confirm or not to the transforming companies of the region. The members of the managements like commercialization; investigation and development; legal consultancy; control and quality and industrial security, also are in the sight.

Sources of this company indicate that “in there there are many irregularities, the manager of logistic is related to the commercialization manager, the one of endogenous development has four cooperatives and also has a consultancy. In these days it left a warning in the newspaper where it is looking for it to the Mayorship because they paid a work to him received, it and it did not do it, was lost with the real ones”.

Informant adds that “the administration of general Carlos Acosta Perez has been ominous, terrible, if before they passed things now is much worse, everybody has to see with the one of quotas, has many things that not can to say because life of one mail danger, but within plant knows what is happening and Venalum is the one that more is implied in this roll of the two thousand tons, that are not two thousands, are more”.

Nerves and surprises
Aside from this they assure some workers the reducing one who in these days of investigations, “more than one walk nervous that way, and to they have threatened them to others by electronic mail, by telephones and inclusively already they have given some them that another sustico, the thing is not easy. One does not know nor in whom to trust because a silver ball is a crowd putting. That way they passed through the internal mail the photo of the new house of a manager, the house is worth about 1,800 million of the old women and is in Villa Granada”.

As far as this Manuel Diaz, Secretary General of the Unique Union of University Professional Workers of CVG Venalum, and Gerald Perez, Secretary General of the Unique Union of Workers of Venalum, indicated that they do not want to go out to the arena by the amount of interests that are being touched.

“This is in the hands of the authorities, we are scared because we do not know what can happen, all we have families and to put to us with a subject that is so delicate is to risk. Sincerely we do not know what to think but it is necessary to fight by the rescue of the companies and the vindications of the workers”, honored Diaz, who refused to speak of “intríngulis” that includes the “poster of aluminum”.

On the other hand, and while it leaves from the leadership remains slept and frightened by the great amount of received threats, the authorities will initiate today a deep revision of the companies that they have assigned aluminum quotas in the zone. The revision intends to verify if in fact each processes the metal that is sold to him.

Between the investigated ones they appear by the side of Venalum: AC Corporation; Coveca; Ventuari; Herssa and Orishas. Of Alcasa they are in favor: Alloys Metals; Guayanés bulk; cooperative Lucha and Alutec, among others. Also in the sight they are Guayana Grids, 45 Jordan and Investment Guayana Smelting, located in the route the Rosary.

More irregularities
Sources of the investigation explained that besides the discovery of aluminum in Palúa they investigate about the aluminum sale with high iron content. This aluminum, with between an 8 and 10 percent of iron, is product of a fault in the process. Venalum usually sells this material to lower prices to leave him, since to reprocesar it leaves to him more expensive.

Experts in quality comment that years ago, the existence of one percent of aluminum outside the specifications raised to the alarms in control and quality. In recent dates CVG Venalum he has had until 20 of his production with high iron content, which means that something does not walk well.

To make matters worse, in the statutes of Venalum he leaves contemplated that its president - the one that is of turn has the faculty to place to its discretion 2 thousand tons monthly of aluminum, that is to say 24 thousand tons to the year. Union leaders in repeated opportunities have asked Basic ministers of Industries and Minería to revoke this right, “because the companies of the State cannot continue administering itself with warehouse criterion”.

Added to this in Venalum with the arrival of general Carlos Acosta Perez a new management of special projects was constituted, called by many workers like the “space management”, because nobody knows what there they do and which is the function of the 32 people who toil there. Monthly the company pays to this management - by concepts of basic wages more than 300 million, that could be used little by little to be paying to the suppliers - to put an example with those who great debts maintain.

Although not only Venalum is under a magnifying glass, in Alcasa are calmer because there the investigations have sprinkled less. The labor directors also are being investigated jointly with the managements, more nevertheless the employees assure that there is a less tense climate “so far”.

In order to engavetar?

He is possible to remember that the past Saturday 2,063 tons of aluminum were put in Palúa that were destined to their sale in the outside. The shipment was retained officially Monday 23 of March, when the National Guard and the Public Ministry initiated the respective inquiries.

The day after the exit to the public light of the sale of the aluminum quotas and the “Mafias” that there are behind them, Victor Angel, director of Security of the Ministry of the Popular Power for the Basic Industry and the Mining (Mibam), denied that the presumed “Mafias” were within the companies of the State and that aluminum surpluses were negotiating to companies of the zone.

The intervention of Angel is considered by many like a facade to avoid that the real situation is faced that is after the sale of aluminum and its positioning abroad.

Nevertheless at the beginning of March of this year president Hugo Chavez, during his visit to City To cheep, ordered to the Direction of Military intelligence and the Main directorate of the Intelligence services (Disip), to make investigations to end the “Mafias” within the sector aluminum.

In view of everything what it has spent this week many fear that the subject is at any time straggler, and that with a stroke of the pen or ring is sent to engavetar the investigation and the case it is as always in the forgetfulness favoring impunity of those who is put in the business.