A delegation of senior officers from the Legal professional Basic’s Workplace of Venezuela arrived in Chile this Tuesday to collaborate within the investigation of the homicide of former Venezuelan army officer Ronald Ojeda.
The nationwide prosecutor of the South American nation, Ángel Valencia, reported that the director of Worldwide Affairs of the Venezuelan Public Ministry, Álvaro Cabrera, and the final director in opposition to Frequent Crimes, Ángel Fuenmayor, will meet on Thursday with their counterparts from the Chilean Prosecutor’s Workplace.
“On Thursday there can be a gathering in Santiago of our head of the Worldwide Cooperation Unit, who’s the peer of the pinnacle of the Worldwide Cooperation Unit of the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Workplace that makes up the delegation, with the aim of exchanging info,” Valencia stated. at a press level from the northern metropolis of Antofagasta.
an accused
To date, there is just one individual charged with the kidnapping and homicide of Ojeda: a 17-year-old youth, additionally Venezuelan, who has been in a juvenile middle since March.
The prosecutor accountable for the case, Héctor Barros, linked the crime to the Tren de Aragua felony gang, born in a Venezuelan jail and unfold all through Chile, Peru and Bolivia, and the case generated friction between the Governments of Chile and Venezuela.
Two different suspects had been recognized and have an energetic arrest warrant, however are fugitives from justice.
Valencia stated that the 2 suspects are probably in Venezuela and appreciated the go to of the Venezuelan prosecutors.
«We’re glad to know that you simply reiterate your willingness to cooperate, it’s info that we discover very passable and really constructive; In fact one hopes that this expression of will can be translated into concrete actions, however the truth of expressing it’s at all times constructive,” stated the nationwide prosecutor, who recalled that between the prosecutor’s places of work of each international locations there are “a number of ties” in widespread and “many subjects to speak regarding past the Ojeda case.
Ojeda case
The previous Venezuelan army officer Ronald Ojeda was murdered final February in Santiago, and whose authorship and circumstances haven’t but been clarified.
Ojeda’s stays had been discovered in the course of a police operation within the commune of Maipú, within the metropolitan area of Santiago, in an irregular land seize and buried at a depth of 1.4 meters beneath a cement block.
In accordance with the primary variations, based mostly on hypothesis, digital camera recordings and the invention of a automotive with pretend uniforms, Ojeda would have been taken from his home in the course of the night time, nearly bare, by a gaggle of individuals wearing police uniforms and brought to an unknown place.
*With info from EFE*
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2024-06-25 15:36:25
