Maikel Villegas, suspect in the murder in Chile of his compatriot and former military officer Ronald Ojeda. The citizen arrived on the night of November 19 at Group 10 of the Santiago airport aboard a Chilean Air Force plane (FACh) extradited from Costa Rica, a country where he was detained on July 12 by local police in a border area while en route to Panama
The Chilean Justice decreed this Wednesday the preventive detention against the Venezuelan Maikel Villegas, suspected of the murder in Santiago de Chile of his compatriot and former military officer Ronald Ojeda.
«His original participation was intended to carry out surveillance around the site of the event and secondly to make a film for the purpose of sending it to third parties, since it is one of the ways in which the Aragua Train “what generally works,” said metropolitan prosecutor Héctor Barros at the end of the hearing.
Villegas arrived last night at Group 10 at the airport of the Andean capital aboard a Chilean Air Force plane (FACh) extradited from Costa Rica, a country where he was detained on July 12 by local police in a border area while en route to Panama.
Guarded by members of the Investigative Police (PDI) during his transfer to Chile, Villegas had an international arrest warrant since last March after his departure from the country through an unauthorized passage in the northern zone was detected.
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Ojeda, who is linked to the Venezuelan opposition in exile, was taken from his home in Santiago by a group of men disguised as police officers and was apparently murdered almost immediately, although his body was not found until weeks later buried under a cement slab.
In April, the Chilean Prosecutor’s Office linked the crime to the transnational criminal gang Tren de Aragua, formed in a Venezuelan prison and spread throughout Chile, Peru, Colombia and Bolivia, and requested support from the Venezuelan authorities to clarify the facts.
The case caused friction between Chile and Venezuela and accusations of lack of cooperation from Santiago towards Caracas.
With information from EFE
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