The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, has announced that he will request arrest and extradition orders against the leaders of the opposition parties Voluntad Popular, Leopoldo Lopez and First Justice, Julio Borgeswithin the framework of the oil corruption plot called PDVSA-Cripto.
The prosecutor has shown a video in a televised appearance in which Samark López appears as a front man for former Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami, who would have confessed details about the participation of López and Borges in the assignment of at least eight oil tankers in exchange for profits. that would exceed 1,000 million dollars (euros).
Saab has indicated that in the next few hours there will be an advance evidence hearing of the denunciation in which the confession would become full evidence by which López could obtain a reduced sentence, reports the Cocuyo Effect portal.
Saab explained that an allocation of oil shipments was carried out. “The minimum shipments were two million barrels per ship with an approximate value between 120 and 140 million dollars each, depending on the price they had on the market. And there was a second modality, where these contractors were required, instead of paying the price of crude oil, to send fuel or diluent to be mixed and produce oil in Venezuela,” Saab said.
López affirms in the confession that one of Leopoldo López’s objectives was to return to Venezuela from Spain, which be politically enabled and participate in the electoral campaign.
“Corrupt and traitorous opposition to their own bases and crawled to look for El Aissami through his right hand Samark López. “It is a plot of brutal billion-dollar corruption that involves López and Borges,” Saab added.
The prosecutor has highlighted that there are 67 detainees for this investigation, including former Minister El Aissami, Samark López and former Minister of Finance Simón Zerpa.
The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) already authorized extradition request against Borges in 2018 for his alleged participation in the assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro. He also did it with López in 2021, after he left for Spain in 2020.
Borges has responded in his account on “Today more than ever #UnidadYVoto, we are going to achieve it on July 28,” Has published.
Leopoldo López had also criticized Saab on April 29, before the request for a new arrest warrant was known. “Saab, you more than anyone know that you have also had conversations to explore Maduro’s departure. There are many who have done it and do it within the dictatorship. So don’t act crazy, raising a new pot against me. They have you recorded too. “Everything falls under its own weight,” he said.
