The former Minister of the Interior and Justice, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, has been released in the last few hours, after four years and 10 months in prison.
Rodríguez Torres, 59 years old, traveled this Saturday from Caracas to Madrid, with a stop in the Dominican Republic.
In a video that he posted on his Twitter account, where he announced that he would leave the country for Spain, he also thanked the former Spanish president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for his management of his case.
The former minister is a general of the Armed Forces who was head of the country’s Intelligence service (Sebin) and accused of espionage and instigation of rebellion among other crimes.
In July 2021, the 1st Military Control Court of Caracas ordered the opening of a trial against the former Minister of the Interior and Justice, Miguel Rodriguez Torres for the crime of instigating rebellion. They indicated that the Court dismissed the other crimes that were originally charged against him: against the security of the nation, espionage, mutiny, and treason against the homeland.
The former minister was arrested on March 13, 2018 in Plaza Venezuela due to an arrest warrant issued on June 27, 2017, the same day that Oscar Pérez flew over Caracas in a helicopter he stole from La Carlota.
At the time, Last News reported that the 3rd National Military Prosecutor’s Office charged Rodríguez Torres based on an investigation initiated on May 30, 2017, in which Lieutenant Luis Eduardo Reinoso Morales, attached to the 351 Military Police Battalion “G/D. José Miguel Lanza.
In the investigation, Rodríguez Torres is indicated as a member of the Broad Challenge of All Movement (Maddt) created in 2014 in Canada, “the origin of the economic funds being unknown.” It states that the movement “is used to carry out activities against the legitimacy of the Legally Constituted Government.”
