- Chilean authorities are waiting for the request they issued once morest the person accused of this crime, Maickel Villegas Rodríguez, to be carried out.
Costa Rican Public Security Minister Mario Zamora Cordero confirmed on July 15 that Maickel Villegas Rodríguez, suspected of having participated in the murder of former Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ojeda, was held in a maximum security prison while the extradition process to Chile is completed.
“The person is being held under reinforced security procedures, given his high level of murderous danger, and we are awaiting judicial instructions in order to activate this extradition process,” Zamora told the newspaper. The counter. He explained that Villegas remains in the Immigration Detention Center of the Central American nation.
Zamora recalled that Villegas’ arrest was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in Costa Rica, who identified the suspect through his fingerprint while he was trying to pass through that country from South America towards the United States.
“The Interpol Unit in Costa Rica was contacted and, using this person’s fingerprint, he was identified as the suspect wanted by international justice following a red alert issued by the Chilean authorities, due to his links to a politically motivated homicide committed in that South American country,” he said.
Chile’s National Immigration Service (Sermig) also said that Villegas Rodríguez’s application for a work and residence permit had been rejected. According to the director of that agency, Luis Eduardo Thayer, the suspect in the murder of Ojeda was ordered to leave the country immediately.
The arrest of Maickel Villegas
Costa Rican authorities stopped the 12th of July Maickel Villegas, suspected of participating in the murder of Venezuelan lieutenant Ronald Ojeda, which occurred in Chile in February of this year, was arrested. The EFE news agency reported on the arrest, citing sources from the Ministry of Public Security of the Central American nation.
According to sources cited by EFE, the arrest of the accused, a Venezuelan national, occurred precisely when he was trying to cross the border into Panama, in the town of Paso Canoas, and the Interpol alert was activated when his documents were reviewed.
Costa Rican authorities indicated on July 13 that they received the Chile’s extradition request for Venezuelan Maickel Villegas, a request that is being processed by the Supreme Court of Justice.
“The extradition request requested by the Chilean Foreign Ministry in relation to the Venezuelan citizen Villegas was formally received by the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry and immediately transferred to the Secretariat of the Costa Rican Supreme Court of Justice for the due activation of the extradition procedure,” reported the Ministry of Security of Costa Rica.
The murder of Ronald Ojeda
Chilean authorities reported on the night of March 1st who found the body of former Venezuelan military man Ronald Ojeda in a camp in Maipú, Chile.
Ojeda was kidnapped on February 21 in the Independencia district of Santiago, Chile. The captors were dressed in uniform from the Chilean Investigative Police (PDI).
According to the media BioBio of ChileThe body of the former Venezuelan military man was found under a cement pit in Maipú.
“The approximate date of death, according to the doctor of Demecri of the PDI, indicates that it was between 7 and 10 days. Therefore, it also coincides with the date on which the kidnapping occurred,” detailed prosecutor Héctor Barros.
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2024-07-16 17:42:47
