A court in Venezuela ordered the arrest of 35 people, captured by the Armed Forces, for presumably being part of of the “groups of Colombian armed terrorist drug traffickers”, known as “tancol”, which would operate in the border state of Apure, reported this Sunday The supreme court of justice.
The Supreme indicated in a statement that in two different hearings, the 35 people received the arrest warrant for the alleged crimes of terrorism and criminal association, provided for in the Law Against Organized Crime and Financing of Terrorism.
He also said that 12 people the crime of illicit arms trafficking was added, at 4 for illicit carrying of weapons already 2 for the crime of aggravated smuggling.
The TSJ explained that this group of people are involved presumably with the “Structured Organized Crime Groups (GEDO)” which in turn form part of the so-called “tancol”.
Last January 30, the head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Armed Forces, Domingo Hernández, assured that the military body will maintain operations in the border area of the Caribbean country for the eradication of these groups, for “as long as it takes.”
Earlier, on September 30, the president denounced, without showing evidence, that these tancol groups – an acronym invented by the government– are infiltrating Venezuelan territory to threaten “the peace and security” of Venezuela.
