(Kaieteur News) – When the government of Guyana (GoG) entered discussions with Lindsayca, officials missed a bright neon red flag – a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that was raging in the United States against the company for allegations of fraud.
Kaieteur News has already exposed the troubling history of the firm selected by government which President Irfaan Ali still defends.
As delays on the Wales Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project continue to cost Guyana millions, the contractor continues smiling its way to the banks, but this is nothing new for the questionable energy company as new court documents out of the United States reveal a hidden lawsuit that the GoG and the Task Force completely missed—or worse, deliberately ignored.
The Hidden Lawsuit: A Trail of Deception
Deep in the dockets of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas lies Adversary Proceeding No. 23-03212. In this case, Andreina Gamez Rodriguez v. Hector Fuentes, Cogent Energy Services, Lindsayca Inc., et al., the plaintiff leveled damning allegations against the very men building our natural gas plants.
Gamez Rodriguez alleged she was defrauded out of millions of dollars—convinced by Hector Fuentes and his associated entities to pour her money into an operation that was backed by elaborate presentations but allegedly omitted crucial, crippling financial facts. It was a classic bait-and-switch. She accused the Lindsayca executives of aggressive pressuring tactics and deep financial deception.
While the case was recently dismissed on procedural grounds regarding how the fraud was pleaded, the core narrative is terrifyingly familiar. This lawsuit was raging in the U.S. courts at the exact same time the GTE Task Force was busy awarding Lindsayca a US$759 million contract in December 2022.
This raises serious questions about why this lawsuit was kept hidden from the Guyanese public and whether the GTE Taskforce headed by Winston Brassington conducted any due diligence in handing the keys of Guyana’s energy future to the foreign group.
The PDVSA Connection
If the Gamez Rodriguez lawsuit was an isolated incident of financial mismanagement, one might forgive a minor lapse in vetting but according to investigations by El País, Andreina Gamez Rodriguez is not just a random wronged investor; she is deeply connected to the network that looted Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA.
Gamez Rodriguez is the wife of Luis Carlos de León Pérez, a former high-ranking lawyer for PDVSA who was implicated in a massive scheme to drain the Venezuelan state. De León Pérez acted as a frontman, funneling an astonishing $1.1 billion in bribes—including payoffs from Chinese contractors—through shell companies in an Andorran bank. This means Lindsayca was not just dealing with an innocent bystander—they were operating in the same circles as the architects of Venezuela’s financial ruin.
From the looted coffers of PDVSA to the shattered investments in Texas, the environment surrounding Lindsayca is glaringly corrupt. Yet, to the GTE Task Force, this highly questionable track record was apparently considered “top tier” international experience.
Guyana has already secretly bled almost US$100 million in arbitration losses to these contractors because, as sources indicate, the “crafty lawyers of Lindsayca” completely outmaneuvered the Task Force negotiators, shifting the burden of liquidated damages onto the backs of the Guyanese people. Now, they are demanding millions more.
If the Taskforce was unaware of the PDVSA looting connections and the Gamez Rodriguez fraud lawsuit then Guyanese must question whether it has the capacity to manage the country’s largest financial infrastructure project on record.
Imported Corruption
With Lindsayca’s Chairman, Hector Fuentes having mingled with the very architects of the PDVSA collapse, Guyanese should be concerned about whether this country is simply the next target.
As recently exposed by Kaieteur News, Ruben Figuera—the very Project Director overseeing the GTE project for Lindsayca—is himself deeply tied to the Venezuelan corruption scandals. During his time as a high-ranking official under the Maduro regime, Figuera facilitated multi-million-dollar contracts for Lindsayca before walking through a golden revolving door to become their top executive in Guyana.
This means that the same network of individuals who systematically looted and collapsed Venezuela’s state power company are now in charge of building Guyana’s biggest power project.
Moreover, concerns remain over whether the Donald Trump administration and Marco Rubio’s U.S. State Department is truly aware of who Lindsayca is. Sources question “how can the United States celebrate deposing the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela, while simultaneously allowing the Department of Commerce, the EXIM Bank, and the State Department to advocate for and financially back Hector Fuentes and Lindsayca—men inextricably tied to that exact regime’s looting network?”
Original link posted by Kaieteur News on June 21, 2026
