Venezuela is investigating a $4.85 billion 'mega-fraud' at the state-owned oil company PDVSA. Petroleum Minister Tareck El Aissami, states before the Prosecutor's Office in Caracas, that PDVSA made in one year several payments for a total of 28 transfers, corresponding to the credit line of $4.85 billion agreed with the Atlantic fund in 2012. The Atlantic fund would then have assigned the credit line to the foreign funds Violet and Vuelca, based in Panama and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines respectively. However, the minister assures, "there is no record of any payments in PDVSA's account". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES