Pedro Hernández, Chavista mayor of the municipality of Santos Michelena in Aragua state, denied on Tuesday any links with Carlos Revete’s gang, alías el Koki, and that the mayor’s office had been raided following the death of the offender.
“A voice memo that’s running all over the country, that there were break-ins at the mayor’s office. Well, let me tell you that we are still working, ” said the mayor in an audio released by The Newspaper.
Hernández added that to date, no worker from the Santos Michelena Mayor’s office has been detained by the authorities.
“There are no links, there are no actions, but love and commitment to our people,” he added.
Deivis Ramírez, a journalist with the fuente de sucesos, said Hernández’s statements came following his alleged links with el Koki and el Conejo became known, following finding photographs on cell phones recovered by Cicpc in which he portrays himself with the criminals.
Death of the Koki
The minister of Interior of the government of Nicolás Maduro, Remigio Ceballos, confirmed on Tuesday followingnoon the death of Revete, a criminal who maintained control of the 905 Level for years.
The subject fell in the sector La Arena de Las Tejerías, in the state of Aragua.
“Operation Indio Guaicaipuro II 2022 remains active, in Aragua state, with new arrests and following armed confrontation once morest police forces, was killed alias el Koki, Carlos Luis Revette,” Ceballos wrote on Twitter.
The operation, of which the number of officials involved and the security forces to which they are attached is unknown, began over the weekend.
Dismantled “dangerous gang”
In an intervention on the Venezuelan state television channel, Ceballos reported Monday that authorities dismantled” a dangerous gang ” during Operation Great Indian Chief Guaicaipuro II, although he did not link it to the Koki.
The operation took place in the town of Las Tejerías, Aragua state, where the Pan-American highway and the Central Regional Highway converge, two of the country’s main roads.
“There were clashes and some people were injured and others who faced justice, for making weapons once morest the police force, neutralized them,” said the minister without providing the number of detainees or deaths.
He added that the band “had several checkpoints” in the area that ” were dismantled by the police.”
After the rumors circulating on social networks of the alleged raid on the mayor of the municipality of Santos Michelena in # Aragua in the middle of the day, Mayor Pedro Hernández denied, through a broadcast audio, that this has happened. # 8Feb # EP pic.twitter.com/xF2v4yuBmo
— The Old Man (@The Old Man) February 8, 2022
The mayor of Santos Michelena, Pedro Hernández, broadcast audio denying any attack and investigation once morest him following the death of “Koki”. On the other hand, the CICPC assures that the investigation continues for his alleged connection to the gang. They call him a ” bandit”
— DeivisRamirezMiranda (@deivisramirez) February 8, 2022
readers to continue and ensure that the uncomfortable news they don’t want you to read remains within your reach.
Today, with your support, we will continue to work hard for censorship-free journalism!
