Alberto Jurado Salazar

Practice Areas

Specialized in White-Collar Crime, defense and private prosecutions (representing victims), internal investigations, compliance and asset recovery. Member of the boutique law firm ALC (www.alc.com.ve) based in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Litigator in local and international cases dealing with fraud, corruption, environmental, cybercrimes, data breach, tax fraud, smuggling, money laundering, anti-piracy, among others. Worked in the private and public (local and international) sector. Fluent in English.

Career

Venezuelan Criminal Lawyer graduated in 2001 from the University of Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela), with postgraduate studies in Economic Criminal Law and more than 20 years of experience in Economic Criminal Law, Asset Recovery, White Collar Crime, Regulatory Compliance, Money Laundering and Fraud Prevention.

In 2001, Alberto Jurado studied his first specialization in criminal law at the Universidad Santa Maria where he obtained the resources to develop the skills and tools in the field of substantive criminal law. Almost at the same time the door was opened to study until 2004 the ‘Latin American Program in Criminal and Criminological Sciences’ at the University of Zulia obtaining the title of Magister Scientiarum in Criminal and Criminological Sciences.

In 2012, Alberto Jurado obtained his Doctorate in Legal Sciences from the same university, presenting as his final report his research work entitled ‘Economic Crimes in the context of business activity in Venezuela’, which represented the conclusions of more than 5 years of research into Venezuelan legislation.

Throughout the years, Dr. Alberto Jurado has not only continued his professional career uninterruptedly since his time in the Judiciary, but also his academic development, studying at the University of Granada in Spain the ‘Master in International Economic Law’ directing his efforts to the understanding of punitive business law with an international focus, as well as the various components made that made him a University Professor of Economic Criminal Law since 2013.

Alberto Jurado not only owes his time to the management of the firm ALC Abogados, of which he is a founding partner, but also participates as a volunteer in various programs, in that way he was National President of the ‘World Jurist Association’ association which is responsible for serving as an international link for the exchange of knowledge between lawyers, judges and jurists in order to strengthen the rule of law in each of their countries.

As National President of the WJA his main responsibility and focus has been to respond to the needs and interests of the members of the association in Venezuela, serving in various conferences held in Spain, Germany and Aruba, as well as in the national territory and participating as a speaker or moderator during these conferences.

He is also President of CORRE, a Non-Governmental Organisation created with the aim of returning assets originating or derived from corruption in our country, promoting the use of criminal legislation and existing legal procedures to achieve this end.

Currently Alberto Jurado is also a professor of ‘Criminal Procedural Law’ and ‘Economic Criminal Law’ in undergraduate at the Rafael Urdaneta University and postgraduate at the University of Zulia and Rafael Belloso Chacín University, for which he has been recognised on two occasions (2013 and 2017) having held this position continuously for 15 years.

Due to his experience of more than 20 years of Alberto Jurado and his leadership, the firm ALC Abogados, is distinguished from other law associations in the region, for being specialised in economic criminal law, assisting mainly companies, being a collaborator of the largest law firms abroad and in the capital city.

In this work presents innovative answers in the area of business criminal law but also give them in an effective, efficient and committed to the resolution of the case of all our clients, it is reflected in it the characteristics of a lawyer with vision, youth and experience which will perform everything that is conducive to the best interests of their represented.

Publications

Economic Offences in Venezuelan Law

Comercium et Tributum, Volume VII (August 2011 - January 2012) - 15 Oct. 2011.

The article aims to locate and comment on those conducts that have been denominated by criminal doctrine and jurisprudence as economic crimes, specifically in Venezuela, starting with the necessary definition of Criminal Law, and then moving on to the definition of one of its branches, such as Economic Criminal Law, given that economic crimes constitute the content of the latter and finally, After an interesting historical journey through the evolution of criminal law in Venezuela, from Bolivar to the present day, we delve into the abundant and dispersed Venezuelan legislation, finding many of these offences in the penal code and in special criminal and non-criminal laws, which in many cases repeat conducts typified in the general Venezuelan criminal law that had been in place since its implementation in this country. The location of the economic criminal offences in the different Venezuelan laws allows the reader to know the way in which this country intends to attack economic criminality from the normative point of view, which has caused great concern worldwide due to the dizzying progress that this form of criminality has presented in recent years and the great havoc that it can cause in the case of Venezuelan society.

Professional Memberships

State of Zulia’s Bar Association. Member since 2001.

Institute of Legal Studies “Angel Francisco Brice.” Board Director – Period: 2013 – 2016.

Venezuelan Business Criminal Association. Co-Founder, Member since 2015.

World Jurist Association. Member since 2016.

Coalición para la Recuperación y Reconstrucción (CORRE). Asset Recovery Iniciative in Venezuela. President since 2016.

Education

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