Venezuela: Prosecutor requests arrest and extradition order for Leopoldo López and Julio Borges

The attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William SaabThis Thursday requested a new arrest and extradition order against opponents Leopoldo López It is Julio Borges -both exiled-, whom he accused of receiving benefits worth more than a billion dollars through contractors linked to the ‘Pdvsa-Cripto’ corruption scheme.

At a press conference, Saab showed a video in which the businessman Samarca Lopez – today arrested and accused of being “figurehead”from the also detained Tareck El Aissamiformer Petroleum Minister – said that at least two Venezuelan contractors “They have a close connection with the parties Justice first It is Popular will”, to which Borges and Leopoldo López belong, respectively.

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The TSJ issued an arrest warrant for the first time against Leopoldo López in 2014, as part of a series of national protests against the Government of Nicolás Madurowhere 43 people died, and was sentenced to 13 years and 9 months in 2015 for responsibility “the commission of crimes of arson, public instigation, damage to public property and criminal association“, between others.

Two years later, the TSJ granted him house arrest, which the opponent abandoned on April 30, 2019 with a supposed ‘presidential pardon’ granted by Juan Guaidó -self-proclaimed interim president months ago- and both attempted a military uprising that did not succeed.

After that, the TSJ “revoked the house arrest measure” and issued an arrest warrant against López, who entered the residence of the ambassador of Spain in Caracaswhere he remained until October 2020, when he fled to Madrid.

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Regarding the case of Julio BorgesSaab issued an arrest warrant in 2023 and charged him with treason, conspiracy and association for his alleged participation in an attempted military uprising in April 2019, although he already had two previous arrest warrants for his “direct participation in the theft of the republic’s gold deposited in England” and for planning and financing the assassination attempt against President Maduro in August 2018.

Source: Elcomercio

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