Unrestricted freedom was decreed in favor of Daniel Florencio Haro Méndez, former mayor of Cantaura (Anzoátegui), who was arrested on February 3 for his alleged participation in a fuel smuggling network, according to sources from the justice system.
Haro Méndez, who held the position of popular election for the PSUV, was confined in the “Simón Bolívar” New Man Training Center located in the El Paraíso urbanization, Caracas.
The measure of freedom without restrictions in favor of Haro Méndez was issued by the 4th Special Court with Jurisdiction in Crimes Associated with Terrorism by Judge José Mascimino Márquez.
Haro Méndez was captured at the time along with the mayor of Soledad, Carlos Vidal; the commander of the Bolivarian National Guard in that town, Antonio José Barrios, and the superior prosecutor of Bolívar, Manuel Gil Da Silva.
When announcing such arrests, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, said that these people were part of a network “dedicated to the diversion and illegal sale of gasoline to supply irregular groups engaged in illegal mining.”
