Prison has been “hell on earth” for six American oil executives swept up in a bogus corruption case in Venezuela, a brother to two of …
Prison has been “hell on earth” for six American oil executives swept up in a bogus corruption case in Venezuela, a brother to two of the men told The Post Friday, a day after they were sentenced. Already, his brothers have been imprisoned for three years, Alirio Jose Zambrano told The Post, speaking by phone from his home in Mountain Lakes, NJ. Then came a closed-court trial that started in August and ended Thursday, with his brothers slammed with five-year terms. “Last night, Thanksgiving night, at around six p.m. our lawyer called and gave us the bad news,” Zambrano,47, said of learning of the conviction of his brothers Alirio Jose,56, and Jose Luis,54, both of Houston. The pair and their colleagues, who work for CITGO, have been behind bars ever since being summoned to Caracas for a meeting that wound up stormed by military police.
