The 4th Special Antiterrorist Court of Caracas issued sentences ranging between 20 and 1 year in prison against those accused of the disappearance and murder of Carlos Lanz, according to judicial sources.
Elis Eduardo Becerra Pulido is the one who received the highest sentence. This person was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was the foreman of the La Fortaleza farm (El Pao, Cojedes) in which Lanz was murdered on August 8, 2020.
Becerra Pulido was the one who dug the grave where they momentarily deposited the body of Carlos Lanz and the person who helped dismember said body to throw it at a herd of pigs, according to the Prosecutor’s investigation.
Tito José Viloria Carrillo was condemned to 16 years and three months in prison. This person moved Carlos Lanz from his residence to hand him over to the gunmen on a section of the Regional del Centro highway. He then continued the trip to the La Fortaleza farm where he witnessed the execution of his friend. Attorney General Tarek William Saab described Viloria as “the macabre mind” that fabricated the alibi that Lanz was kidnapped by a CIA commission.
Lanz’s wife: doomed
Maxyorisol Cumare Sequera, wife of Carlos Lanz, received a sentence of 13 years, 6 months and 20 days in prison. She was the one who contacted Glen Castellano to make Lanz disappear, as she recounted in a videotaped statement.
Glen Rafael Castellano Hernández is sentenced to 11 years 10 months and 15 days in prison. This person was the one who contacted the pran of the Tocorón prison to provide the assassins who would kill Lanz. He received 3,000 dollars for this organizational task, according to his testimony.
Both Mayi Cumare and Glen Castellano received double benefit for being informers and admitting the facts, figures contemplated in the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure, where sentence reductions are established for defendants who collaborate with the investigation.
Zaida Elizabeth Suárez, wife of Tito Viloria, was sentenced to serve 6 years and 11 months in prison.
other convicts
The others convicted of the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Carlos Lanz are:
-Darwin Alejandro Zambrano (4 years 7 months)
-Oliver Alexander Medina (3 years and 2 months).
These two people were part of the network of corruption that the Public ministry detected around Mayi Cumare, according to what Saab said.
-Diego Alexander Aterhotua Tamayo (1 year and 5 months)
-Alyeska Berenice Gil Cumare, stepdaughter of Carlos Lanz (1 year and 5 months)
-Abyayala Esperanza Gil Cumare, daughter of Carlos Lanz (1 year and 5 months)
These last three were found as accessories to the entire criminal plot that led to the murder of Professor Lanz, argued the Public Ministry.
The Public ministry He requested that the case be dismissed in favor of two defendants: Maryuri Carolina Acevedo Durán, the maid of the Lanz-Cumare family, and Hely Enrique Pinto Moreno. And in relation to José Antonio Pinto Moreno, the Prosecutor’s Office did not present an accusatory brief, for which the Court granted him a substitute measure of freedom.
These sentences were pronounced between last Wednesday and Friday by Judge José Macsimino Marquéz García, head of the 4th Special Antiterrorist Court of Caracas.
Judicial, political and moral victory
This Friday the fiscal General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, recounted the actions of the Public Ministry and the different instances that participated for more than two years in the investigation of the disappearance of Carlos Lanz, and described them as a judicial, political and moral resolution of the case.
“There was investigation and discrimination, as established in Venezuelan law. We have to congratulate the Venezuelan State for this judicial, political and moral victory for the resolution of this case”, he said.
In this regard, he recalled that the Public ministry It was activated from the first hours after the report of the disappearance of Carlos Lanz, on August 9, 2020.
In total, more than 400 proceedings were carried out, from interviews with the possible perpetrators and their environment, to visual inspections, raids, telephone and forensic tests.
He also stressed that, from the beginning, it was determined that there was no violent act in Carlos Lanz’s departure, and it was always clear that the people around him were hiding information or lying.
