The Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, asked the Spanish authorities on Wednesday to comply with the extraditions that the country has officially requested, although he did not clarify to which cases he refers.
“I take this opportunity so that the jurisdictional, judicial, and Kingdom of Spain authorities respect the requirements of the Venezuelan legal system and extradite the criminals who escape and flee from Venezuelan justice and reside today in that country,” Plasencia said during a statement to the media. .
Although it did not refer to any specific case, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) asked Spain in May 2021 for the extradition of opposition figure Leopoldo López, who, in October 2020, left his country clandestinely, through the border with Colombia.
“The Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), declared it appropriate to request the Kingdom of Spain, the active extradition of citizen Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza, for the faithful fulfillment of the rest of his sentence in Venezuelan territory,” the court said. in a statement at the time.
Last November, Nicolás Maduro said that the authorities of his country were going to ask Spain for the extradition of the person who ordered an alleged plan to sabotage the regional and local elections held on the 21st of that month and that his government identified as William Sánchez.
“The Spanish government should know: we are going to officially, legally, request the Spanish government to capture and extradite this mastermind, who gave the orders,” Maduro said on that occasion without mentioning Sánchez directly.
After making the request public, he also explained that he was going to request the investigation and capture of Leopoldo López for being the head of this terrorist group.
Among the most prominent cases, Attorney General Tarek William Saab reported in September that his country had requested the extradition of former Chavista general Hugo Carvajal, known as “el Pollo” Carvajal, from Spain, who was captured in Madrid on September 10.
Carvajal is accused in the country in Venezuela for the crimes of treason against the fatherland, continued conspiracy, financing of terrorism and association, Saab recalled then