Edmundo González is accused of being responsible for the following six crimes: usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, instigation to disobedience of laws, conspiracy, sabotage to damage systems and association.
The First Special Anti-Terrorist Court agreed to the arrest warrant against the applicant to the President of the opposition, Edmundo González, and commissioned the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps (CICPC) to execute this decree.
On the afternoon of Monday, September 2, the Prosecutor’s Office requested the arrest warrant (published on the social network Instagram) against the candidate of the Unitary Platform after having issued three summonses in the framework of an investigation against him and he did not appear.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office first summoned González for Monday, August 26, then for Tuesday, August 27, and then for Friday, August 30. At that time, he was warned that if he did not appear, an arrest warrant would be issued, considering that he was “in the presence of a risk of flight.”
The document, signed by auxiliary judge Luis Ernesto Dueñez Reyes, details that the request for arrest arises from the alleged commission of the crimes of usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, instigation to disobedience of laws, conspiracy, sabotage to damage systems and association.
However, lawyer Ali Daniels explains that “there is no such thing as a crime of ‘sabotage to damage systems’ because it could just as easily be a crime to ‘sabotage damage’.” He explained that the Computer Crimes Act defines the “interception of computer data” as a crime, when “computer data is intercepted in non-public transmissions.”
Similarly, Daniels adds that the The crime of “association” does not exist, The law states that this refers to anyone who is part of an organized crime group.
The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation against Edmundo González after the publication in a Web page According to the electoral records obtained by opposition witnesses, the winner of the presidential elections would be the opposition with 67% of the votes (7,303,480) and leaves Nicolás Maduro in second place with 30% of the votes (3,316,142).
These electoral documents, which the Unitary Platform made public and uses as evidence to denounce to the world that the National Electoral Council (CNE) committed fraud in the elections of July 28, are described by the Venezuelan authorities as “false.”
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