A reward of 100 thousand dollars is offered by the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office for anyone who offers information about the location or captures Edmundo González Urrutia, who remains in Spain as an asylum seeker. The announcement released by the Cicpc also included an amount of 500 thousand dollars, which was later corrected
This Thursday, January 2, a reward poster for 100 thousand dollars was published on the social networks of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps (Cicpc) for anyone who provides information on the location of Edmundo González Urrutia.
According to the Cicpc publication on its Instagram accountformer diplomat González Urrutia is accused of the alleged crimes of conspiracy, complicity in the use of violent acts, forging documents, money laundering, ignorance of State institutions, instigation to disobedience of the laws and association to commit a crime.
Several posts were published by the Cicpc on Thursday afternoon in which various amounts were offered for the reward. In a first publication it was reported about 100 thousand dollars, and later the figure was raised to 500 thousand. However, minutes later the cartel was posted again with the first reward figure of $100 thousand.
Although in the publication on the social network they offer 100 dollars to Whoever provides information about the location of Edmundo González, the poster itself states that anyone who knows his whereabouts must present it to the Public Ministry.
González Urrutia, who has been in Spain since last September, told various international media that plans to return to Venezuela to assume the head of state, after claiming to have won the presidential elections on July 28. He currently has an asylum status given by the Pedro Sánchez government.
Since he arrived in Spain, the Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest warrant against him, while several authorities indicated that they will imprison him if he returns to the country. “They will be able to enter, but they will not be able to leave” the country, said the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, referring to the former candidate for the presidential elections for a coalition of opposition parties led by María Corina Machado of Vente Venezuela.
The “Wanted” poster is very similar to those published by the FBI or those of the United States authorities with the rewards for several Venezuelan officials, among them, that of Nicolás Maduro for whom they offer 15 thousand dollars.
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*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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