He was Secretary of the Presidency in 1989 and later Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1989 and 1991.
In 1993, a trial began against him, along with Carlos Andrés Pérez and minister Alejandro Izaguirre, as well as three other people.[1]
On May 26, 1993, he entered the El Junquito prison. On May 30, he was convicted by the Supreme Court of Justice for "aggravated generic embezzlement", an "act committed in the circumstances of place, manner and time that have been established, to be fulfilled the sentence of two years and four months in prison" and "condemns the aforementioned defendant to restitute, repair or compensate for the damage caused to public assets".[2]
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS ruled in 2000 that "the Venezuelan State violated to the detriment of Reinaldo Figueredo Planchart article 8(1) of the Convention in regarding his right to be heard by a judge or court competent in the substantiation of the criminal accusation that was carried out against him".[2]
On August 2, 2000, the new Supreme Court of Justice prescribed its charges,[3] being released.