A former wealth manager at Swiss bank Julius Baer Group Ltd. and an official with a Miami-based broker-dealer are among the defendants in a money-laundering conspiracy complaint charging $1.2 billion was embezzled from Venezuela’s state-run oil company.

One of the South Florida connections is a unit in Sunny Isles Beach’s glitzy Porsche Design Tower, which carries owners’ cars to their high-rise units by elevator. Investigators found a suspicious ownership transfer.