October 10, 2024, 11:05 PM
October 10, 2024, 11:05 PM
The justice of the United States, through its embassy, formalized the request for the extradition of the former director of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), Maximiliano Dávila, and the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) is already analyzing this request.
“The United States has made known the formal extradition request and it has been immediately referred to the rapporteur magistrate, who will have in his hands the preparation of the draft resolution to be put into consideration by the Plenary Chamber,” reported TSJ resident Marco Jaimes, as published by ABI.
Jaimes said that the formal request reached the TSJ at the end of September and since then The 60-day period was opened so that the rapporteur magistrate sends his report to the Plenary Chamber.
“It simply remains for the rapporteur magistrate to make the project known, either granting extradition, denying it or finally granting extradition on a deferred basis,” he explained.
On January 22, 2022, Dávila was apprehended in the border municipality of Villazón, Potosí, when He was trying to cross the border towards Argentina.
The former director of the Felcn is investigated for his alleged links with a criminal organization that refined cocaine produced in neighboring countries in Bolivia, and then export it to the United States, according to an official investigation.
In February 2022 Dávila He was sent to the San Pedro prison with preventive detention for the alleged crime of legitimizing illicit profits.
Through a supreme order, on August 14 of this year, the TSJ ordered the preventive detention for the purposes of extradition of Dávila.
