2024-03-20 11:08:46
He Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab considered this Tuesday that abroad the power of the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua, whose members have been captured or held responsible for serious crimes in countries in America and Europe, as well as in Chile.
“It has been oversized and power has been assigned to the Aragua Train that it does not actually have,” said Saab, who recalled that 44 people were arrested for their participation or connection with this criminal group.
In that sense, he insisted that the gang “was dismantled” by the authorities during the intervention of the Tocorón prison, where the organization was born.
Although he does not deny “the existence of Venezuelan criminals who live in other countries, where they have even created gangs,” he believes that “a myth has been built” around the Aragua Train and “a matrix that seeks to link the Venezuelan State ” with the members of this criminal group.
The Venezuelan Justice, he explained, has verified that some detainees in other countries, identified as members of the gang, “do not appear as part of the organization’s organizational chart and some do not even have a criminal record in Venezuela.”
“We would not be surprised if the subterfuge of fighting crime is being used to continue increasing the policy of coercive measures against Venezuela and its authorities,” he pointed out, after criticizing the proposal of a group of US congressmen who asked President Joe Biden to declare the gang a Transnational Criminal Organization.
In his opinion, it is necessary for Caracas and Washington, without formal relations since 2019, to strengthen the fight against transnational crime through criminal and police cooperation, a mechanism that has allowed the exchange of information with other countries.
For example, he mentioned the case of a brother of Héctor Guerrero, the leader of the ‘Aragua Train’, who was recently arrested in Spain, so Venezuela has already “started its extradition process,” the prosecutor said.
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