The reward is offered by a private United States citizen due to fraudulent activities by Johana Carolina Bastidas Nunez and her accomplice who's name is unknown, but goes by Sergio Westernou. Reward is for information about Johana and Sergio that will lead to their arrect and conviction. Proof of Johana's and AKA: Sergio's arrest and conviction will have to be provided to recieve the reward.
Contact reward@sergiowesternou.com if you have information to share.
Known information
Name: Johana Carolina Bastidas Nunez
Country: She is from Venezuela, but is currently believed to be living in Spain
Employment: Former employee of Detectives Privados Venezuela
Notes:
Detectives Privados Venezuela was hired for an investigation, and they did provide some information, but not the desired results, while working with Nelson Jeus Aguilar Castejon. Nelson requested a significantly larger charge to perform a more indepth and local investigation that seemed unreasonable. I had previously worked with GS Investigacion y Logistica S.A.S. in Colombia and they had provided significanly more information at a very reasonable rate and I would personally recommend them. Another private investigation company ISOG was hired and tried to pass on information that they were not hired for, which was already known. ISOG's information was cross checked with Detectives Privados Venezuela and it was determined to be accurate, but not presented correctly. ISOG eventually refunded the money as they were not able to perform the service they were hired to perform, which was a surprise. During the crosschecking Johana, while working for Detectives Privados Venezuela, stole my contact information and contacted me seperately, claiming to be able to perform the private investigation at a more reasonable cost. Eventually Johana was contracted for her private investigation services and she passed along fraudulent screenshots, which are believed to be created by her accomplice, who is known as Sergio. It appears that Johana and Sergio created a fake website with a website creation tool called Elementor. Johana and Sergio provided what appeard to be a picture of a computer screen of one account and was paid for the second account. After the second payment was made to Johana, she stopped communicating and after some time had passed, Detectives Privados Venezuela was notified of the breach in their security. It seemed that Nelson contacted Johana and was very upset and terminated her position. Later Johana contacted me again, asking to meetup in Dallas, Texas, as she told me that she came to the United States to seek asylum, but the program was cancelled under the Biden administration. Then she said that she was going to Washington D.C. and then to Canada to seek asylum with her children. Now Johana was telling me that her source, Sergio was demanding more money and that she had a job in Canada and would work to get the money to pay and uphold her end of the agreement. A third payment was made and a second fraudulent screenshot was provided, unfortunately the fraud was not discovered until later. The initial two payments were made to Karla Natalia Huaman, but because of Nelson being contacted this person was stopped from taking the third payment. The third payment was made to Broni Marina Espiritu.
Johana provided her accomplice's name as Sergio Westernou and his email address. Eventually, Sergio was paid to provide more information through a Zelle payment to a third party and then through two crypto payments to an unknown wallet address. Sergio kept making up excuses as to why he had not provided any information after payment, then after providing nothing for about three weeks he demanded $2000 USD more. It became obvious that it was a scam and this website was created and the crime has been reported to the authorities.
Johana still has family in Venezuela, with one known sister that I was told that Sergio Westernou called while Johana was in the United States.
Crimes: Fraud
ID:
Known information about the accomplice
Name: Real name is unknown, AKA: Sergio Westernou
Country: Venezuela
Notes:
Sergio has some basic web development skills.
Sergio has some knowledge about Nelson's actions investigating the crime.
According to Sergio, his wife is a willing participant in his crimes if needed.
According to Sergio, a person named Alejandro is working at Sudeban is helping him gather and sell financial information.
I was told by private detective Johana Bastidas that Sergio used to inform on the cartels and was untouchable, or protected within the government.
Sergio appears have some basic knowledge of Sudeban Venezuela and may be employed there or he was previously employed at Sudeban.
Address: F5V8+GHJ, Urbanización La Carlota, Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Caracas 1071, Miranda, Venezuela
Sudeban Phone: +58 800-7833226
Crimes:
Corruption.
Money laundering.
Money and crypto smuggling.
Fraud.
People directly or indirectly involved
Name: Nathaly Ruiz
Country: United States, Colombia
Notes:
It is not clear who this person is in relation to Johana or Sergio. Sergio had money sent to Nathaly Ruiz via Zelle and should have knowledge of where the money went after it was received.
Zelle Sceenshots:
Name: Unknown crypto wallet holder
Country: Believed to be Colombia
Notes:
It is not clear who this person is in relation to Johana or Sergio. Sergio had money sent to the crypto wallet address shown in the images. Sergio had indicated that he sent someone to Colombia to pick up the money, so I assume it went to a money changer's account, but do not know for sure. DO NOT SEND CRYPTO TO THE WALLET ADDRESS!
Crypto Wallet Images:
Name: Karla Natalia Huaman
Country: Peru
Notes:
It is not clear who this person is in relation to Johana or Sergio. Johana Bastidas had payments sent to Karla Natalia Huaman for private investigation services in Peru through Western Union and should have knowledge of what happened to the payments in this scam.
After Nelson found out about Johana contracting outside of his business, I believe he put a stop to payments being received by Karla Natalia Huaman as Johana had to find another source to take the third payment.
Name: Broni Marina Espiritu Coaquira
Country: Peru
Notes:
Western Union name listed as Broni Marina Espiritu
It is not clear who this person is in relation to Johana or Sergio. Johana Bastidas had payment sent to Broni Marina Spirit Coaquira for private investigation services in Peru through Western Union and should have knowledge of what happened to the payment in this scam.
Name: Alejandro
Country: Venezuela
Notes:
According to Sergio, there is a person named Alejandro working within Sudeban helping him in this scam.
Name: Raul
Country: Venezuela
Notes:
Sergio talked to someone named Raul, that told him that Johana left her abusive husband and went to the United States.
Raul either works for Sudeban, Agencia de Detectives Secrets Investigators International - Venezuela (AKA: Detectives Privados Venezuela, or is a friend that has knowledge about Johana.
Name: Nelson Jeus Aguilar Castejon
Country: Venezuela
Employment: Agencia de Detectives Secrets Investigators International - Venezuela (AKA: Detectives Privados Venezuela)
Address: Calle Araure, Centro Empresarial Pin 10, piso 01, oficina 10, Caracas 1071, Miranda, Venezuela
Phone: +58 412-4615278
See Detectives Privados on Google Maps
Notes:
Nelson was hired to do some investigation work and he provided some information, verbally claiming that he found $422k USD in three bank accounts in Banesco, but would not provide any evidence of his claim. Nelson tried to get additional funds for a more indepth and local search, at a price that seemed unreasonable.
Nelson became aware of the scam when he was contacted about Johana after she went dark and stopped communicating and I believe he fired her for stealing business from him.
After Nelson became aware of this website, he threatened legal actions against me, claiming slander and libel. He was encouraged to do so as his testimoney would be useful. Later Nelson learned that if you are a victim of a crime it is not illegal to investigate it. Now Nelson appears to be trying to help solve the crime as he claims he has lost clients due to this situation.
Nelson claims to have reported this crime to the authorities in Venezuela, but no authorities have made contact with the victim, which seems odd.
Nelson claims to have taken his team and attorney to Sudeban for four days in a row to speak with management about who Sergio could be, or if someone in the goverment could be involved in the crime. Of course the government claims that it is impossible for someone working there to be involved.
Nelson claims to have contacted Johana's family to get her phone number as he appears to be investigating this crime.
Nelson claims that Johana is living in Spain now, confirmed through Venezuela Immigration records of some kind.
ID:
Other details
All of these investigations resulted from a marriage fraud, which is a very cruel crime, and multiple perjuries and fraud carried out in the resulting divorce. Subpoenas were sent to the defendant, which were resposnded to with many lies. Interogatories where sent, which were responded to with many lies. A motion to compel was filed and the judge failed to compel the defendant to provide her bank statements. In mediation the defendant agreed to provide her bank statements, but never did. Through subpoenas some of the defendants bank statements in Mexico were provided. There was money known to be hidden in the divorce that was searched for in Colombia, but was not found, however six bank accounts were located. Nelson claims to have found the hidden money in Venezuela in three bank accounts in Banesco with about $422k USD in them. Now there are more subpoenas sent out to a multitude of banks in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela. As you can see, the situation was complicated by a cruel scam carried out by Johana and her accomplice and now many people's lives are inconvienced.