This Wednesday morning, the leaders of the United People’s Alliance went to the Attorney General’s Office to file a complaint for monopolistic and oligopolistic practices against medicines, food, fuel and electricity.
Said union has branded businessmen as “mafia” because they consider that they control the price of medicine, food, fuel and electricity in the country.
“These acts that have publicly challenged the authorities and the executive decrees that have been promulgated in which some are of an administrative nature and others of a criminal nature, that is why the complaint that we have presented this morning, the leaders of the Alianza del United People to answer for these criminal acts, hoarding, adulteration, fraud, embezzlement, among other crimes that can be investigated,” said Saúl Méndez, leader of said alliance.
He argued that several times they have summoned the Attorney General of the Nation, Javier Caraballo, suggesting that what was being publicly debated at the single dialogue table through the media could become a fundamental piece that is known in the world of law as “crime news”. “In order to start the investigation ex officio, as he did not want to do so, we have come to file a complaint with these four elements so that the investigation is opened. Once the investigation is opened, we are ready to continue providing evidence on the one hand, whether we expand or become a plaintiff,” he explained.
Méndez pointed out that the way in which the “mafias” and business associations have been challenging the people, “they must be clear that they will have a response from the people, not only with this action but with the actions that are called by the Alianza Pueblo Unido” .
