The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice declared the extradition proposed by Venezuela to Panama for that nation to hand over Angie Carolina Rodríguez Mendoza, accused of laundering money from a corruption scheme that operated in the then Foreign Exchange Administration Commission (Cadivi). ).
Such decision is contained in file AA30-P-2024-00328 where it is reported that Rodríguez Mendoza was detained in Panama on June 16. For this reason, the 6th Control Court of Caracas agreed to begin the extradition process of Rodríguez Mendoza to be tried in Venezuela for money laundering and association.
She would have committed these crimes when associating with her husband, Lieutenant Colonel (Army), Francisco Mariano Navas Lugo, who was already sentenced to seven years, 8 months for illicit enrichment.
Navas Lugo served as Cadivi’s Import Manager between 2010 and 2013. At that time, his wife Angie received multiple transactions in her bank accounts “from legal entities (companies) that made requests for authorization to acquire foreign currency, before the Import Management”.
The magistrates of the Criminal Chamber verified that the extradition complies with all the legal requirements and by virtue of this they declared it appropriate, the ruling says.
