The Delegate of the Ombudsman’s Office in Anzoátegui and former Secretary General of the Government of that entity, Rafael Vega, denounced this Wednesday before the General Directorate of Human Rights of the Public Ministry, in Caracas, the former mayor of Guanta, Jonathan Marín, of threatened to kill him as well as his sister Dalia Vega, Director of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, and two union leaders from that regional region.
It should be noted that Jonathan Marín was sentenced by a federal court in the United States to 27 months in prison after having fled the country to avoid being prosecuted for corruption and money laundering in Venezuela.
According to a press release sent by the office of the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, through intelligence work, the content of some conversations held by one of the hitmen, identified as Edgar Guzmán, was extracted. who Marín “gives precise orders to hire some Colombian gunmen for the amount of $50,000 in order to carry out said attacks, with the aim of directly harming Attorney General Saab.”
In one of the captures of the chats, the hitman Edgar Guzmán confesses that after receiving the order from Jonatan Marin to carry out said murders, a possible attack against the Attorney General of the Republic would have a greater impact and therefore more costly and even refers to the case of prosecutor Danilo Anderson.
«What we fear is that we will ask (Marín) for the complete logistics to get Juan and catire (Vega) out because giving Tarek a pain in the ass is going to be more difficult: He is a Prosecutor and throwing us a big turn as they threw it at Danilo ( referring to former prosecutor Anderson) is going to cost a minimum of one million dollars and it is going to be a national scandal”, to which the collaborator replies “national, nothing more, the culprits will even come out”, reads the message.
The General Directorate of Human Rights commissioned two national prosecutors to carry out the respective investigations in order to issue the respective arrest warrants that may apply.
Florida federal judge Robert Scola sentenced Marin to 27 months in prison after accepting a motion proposed by the prosecution to reduce his sentence for having “substantially assisted” the US government in other corruption investigations.
The maximum sentence Marín faced was about five years in prison.
Marín by accepting the accusations of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Marín fled in 2017 to avoid facing corruption charges in Venezuela
