The National Assembly elected in 2020 reiterated on Thursday its demand for the country’s Justice to take “forceful actions” once morest the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who is accused of crimes once morest the Republic, between 2016 and 2021 when he was a deputy.
“How much longer does this National Assembly have to wait to demand that the Prosecutor’s Office, the Comptroller General’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office and the courts of the Republic take forceful actions and put Juan Guaidó behind bars?” he expressed. the first vice-president of the Parliament, Iris Varela, in an ordinary session.
Varela affirmed that Venezuelans are waiting for justice once morest former opposition deputies, whom he called bandits and accused of damaging the country.
The parliamentarians voted in favor of the final report presented by the special commission that investigated the deputies elected in 2015, with an opposition majority.
The deputy José Brito, president of that instance, assured that the investigation consists of 12,592 useful pages, in which the most important aspects are identified and that due process, the right to defense and the presumption of innocence of those allegedly involved were complied with. .
“Of 442 actors involved in this investigation process, 203 are former deputies, between main and alternate, and 239 people designated by Juan Guaidó as ambassadors or diplomatic representatives of Venezuela before the international community, administrative boards to this of Venezuelan companies abroad and the simulation of the Supreme Court of Justice in exile”, he explained.
Brito assured that the number of allegedly involved in acts of corruption can reach 1,600, because the main opposition political parties, Acción Democrática (AD), Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), Voluntad Popular (VP) and Primero Justicia (PJ) , of which he was a part, have “secret lists.”
He also assured that according to the analysis of the economist Pascualina Curcio, the nation’s losses are around 194,000 million dollars.
On January 7, the Venezuelan Parliament created a special commission to investigate, within a month, the “crimes” allegedly committed by the opponents who led the Legislature in the last five years and who allegedly stole state resources.
Since the beginning of the campaign for the elections on December 6, Chavismo had indicated that, once it took control of Parliament, it would investigate the traditional opposition leaders, as it accuses them of having stolen resources from the Venezuelan State.
Chavismo accused the opposition led by Guaidó of stealing resources from subsidiary companies abroad of the state oil company PDVSA, Citgo and Monómeros.
