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The Objective: The owner of the jewellery of the " Zapatero case" was a member of Maduro's family environment

An investigation by The Objective reveals that Fernando Valero Gutiérrez, owner of Venezuelan luxury jewelry firm Exclusividades Vagú, was a partner in a Mauritius-based company with Mario Bonilla Vallera, a close associate of Nicolás Maduro's family and investigated by US…

Fernando Valero Gutiérrez, owner of Exclusividades Vagú, was a partner in Worldwide Wealth Management PCC in Mauritius with Mario Bonilla Vallera.

Mario Bonilla Vallera is investigated by US authorities for laundering $1.2 billion stolen from PDVSA (Money Flight case).

Bonilla studied with Yoswal Gavidia Flores, son of Cilia Flores, and worked at the Procuraduría General de la República when she led it.

The company also included Jenifer Karina Fuentes Gómez, partner of Walter Jacob Gavidia Flores, another son of Cilia Flores.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Reviewed and approved by a human editor on 2026-08-12. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.