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Venezuelan officials and associates of PDVSA, Venezuela's state-run oil firm, have employed an array of strategies to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars offshore, from co-opting banks to possibly using otherwise licit companies to move illicit cash, sources told moneylaundering.com. Allegations that President Nicolas Maduro has enriched himself and his allies through bribery and theft, including from PDVSA, Venezuela's primary source of income and foreign currency, have helped fuel a political and humanitarian crisis in the country and drawn increasingly aggressive sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. OFAC blacklisted PDVSA in January for acting as...