On Friday, September 5, the arrest of 11 prosecutors of the Public Ministry in the Carabobo State for alleged corruption was reported. Informative media and lawyers have also indicated on social networks the arrest of six other officials, including three judges, in District Capital and Bolívar
Since last Friday, September 5, information on the arrest of several judges and judicial prosecutors of the country has circulated. Publicly, in the Carabobo state there are 11 detainees for alleged corruption recognized by the Public Ministry, but former officials have indicated that even high -profile prosecutors involved in cases of political prisoners would have fallen into the purge.
In its official Instagram account, on September 5 the Public Ministry reported on the arrest and imputation of 11 prosecutors, including the superior prosecutor of the Carabobo state until that time, for alleged acts of corruption.
The detainees are Miguel José Durán Trejo, former Superior, Marilyn Hernández, Gabriel José Sánchez, Michael Quintero, Omar Antonio Ramos, Gabriel Almea Hernández, Lerwis Osorio Pimentel, Luis Maldonado, Ángel Daza Hernández, Wilmer Vargas Silva and Ángel Dorta Sivira.
“These former officials brought actions contrary to their positions, because they maintained direct communication with the criminal Rafael Reyna, a lawyer who demanded large amounts of money to the parties involved in order to favor them in the investigations,” said the MP in the publication.
The lawyer, according to the institution, pretended to be a fiscal and “provided information on the different criminal cases, carried out in different fiscal offices of the jurisdiction.”
The group was charged with the alleged crimes of obstruction to the administration of justice, advantages or economic benefits of public officials, delays and intentional omission of aggravated functions, improper use of information or data reserved and association to commit crimes.
The Public Ministry indicated that, since the appointment of SAAB in 2017, 556 officials of that institution have been prosecuted for various crimes. 285 have been charged, another 138 have been accused in court and 54 convictions have been achieved to date.
That is, only 9.71% of processed officials have received a conviction in eight years.
In March 2023, during an anti -corruption police operation, the former Cristóbal Cornieles and José Mascimino Márquez were arrested. Both were accused of corruption to free a member of the criminal group «Train del Llano». In their defense writings, they recognized the lack of judicial independence within the Caracas Criminal Circuit.
More prosecutors and detained judges?
The organization Suppliesbased on unofficial information, he informed that Judge Ángel Betancourt Martínez, in charge of the Third Control Court of the Caracas Metropolitan Area with competence in terrorism, was arrested.
The causes of their arrest are unknown. Betancourt, according to an investigation of the journalistic portal Armando.infois part of the near circle of prosecutor Saab. From the Third Control Court, which was appointed before the presidential ones of 2024, he has the cases of post -electoral prisoners and persons such as defender Eduardo Torres, whose presentation hearing was postponed by the detention of the judge.
The lawyer Zair Mundaray Indian that Ángel Betancourt «He is imprisoned in the Division against the corruption of PNBafter they discovered that it was part of a network of judicial extortion ».
Local media The arrests also reported by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, of the governing judge of the State Bolívar, Yaritza Yileida Godoy, as well as the president of the criminal circuit of that entity, Carlos Retiff, and the superior prosecutor Luis Roa.
Godoy there was already been denounced Last year by individuals to be part of a “judicial mafia” in Bolívar to favor certain cases. The situation was even raised to the then director of the Sebin, Gustavo González López, according to a report of The National.
Another of the prosecutors under arrest would be Moisés García for being “part of a network of extortionists who for some reason fell out of favor,” said Mundaray, while affirming that he was “another of Tarek’s favorite William Saab.”
Garcia accused Reinaldo Araujo, a militant of Vente Venezuela in the state of Trujillo, for the alleged crimes of terrorism, association to commit crimes and alteration of public order.
Araujo was arrested on January 9 by National Guard officials on Bolívar de Valera Avenue when he returned to his home from a medical appointment. He suffered from heart problems due to hypertension. On February 24 he presented a heart crisis and was taken to the Pedro Emilio Carrillo hospital, where he died.
The “Tarek train”
According to former -Holying Mundaray, these arrests would not have been achieved “for the mood of justice and fight against corruption, but for a dispute between bands.” Several, he said, would be under arrest or missing.
Mundaray said the prosecutor Farik Mora Salcedo, sanctioned by the United States and the European Union in 2020, would be among the detainees over the weekend for alleged corruption.
Mora Salcedo is one of the prosecutors who was in charge of a large number of political prisoners, as well as Dinorah Bustamante. He was even accused by several convicted of the so -called “case of the drones” of having directly witnessed the torture to which they were submitted after arrest.
In his rSocial edesMundaray described these arrests as prosecutors as “the fall of Tarek William Saab train.” He said it is a “dangerous organization that directs extortion, kidnappings, corruption, disappearances, torture and imprisonment” that would be in charge of the head of the Venezuelan Public Ministry.
«The reality is that they tried to monopolize criminal income from the Public Ministry and faced two powerful posters: that of the PNB (Bolivarian National Police) and the Sebin (Bolivarian National Intelligence Service). The Tarek band prosecutors squandered money at full hands, bought luxurious goods, vehicles, real estate, jewelry, humiliated citizens, seized otherwise goods with assemblies of all kinds, corruption made metastases, all under the direction of Tarek, who claims to be essential to Nicolás Maduro and this happened to them, ”he said.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against 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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