The request of Dignity and Justice (DyJ) to the National Court of follow the trail of ETA refugees in Venezuela Taking advantage of the fall of Nicolás Maduro, it remains fallow. Two and a half months after the judge of the National Court Francisco de Jorge asked the Prosecutor’s Office on January 15 to take a position on the matter before moving forward, the Public Ministry has not yet made a statement, as legal sources confirm to LA RAZÓN.
Although the report of the Prosecutor’s Office is not binding on the investigator, it is usual for him to wait to know his opinion before ruling on a decision of this magnitude, which would force the activation of international cooperation mechanisms so that the Delcy Rodríguez regime would report the whereabouts of the fourteen ETA members whom the association chaired by Daniel Portero places in the “fugitive apparatus” of the terrorist gang.
Dignity and Justice made this request, advanced by this newspaper, within the framework of the investigation opened for integration into a terrorist organization of seven alleged members of the “fugitive apparatus”, in which it exercises the popular accusation.
Links to the “escape device”
The association wants De Jorge – who has already expressed the opinion of the Civil Guard on this matter according to the sources consulted – to release a rogatory commission to Venezuela to access “how much information they have” about the named ETA members – with José Ignacio de Juana Chaos at the head – in relation to their alleged “link or membership” to the ETA “refugee group”. The accusation also wants to delve into the “functions carried out, contacts with other members of ETA, liaison work and degree of responsibility within this group” historically controlled by the “political apparatus” of the criminal gang.
Another of the pillars of this request to the National Court is the documentation seized by the United States in the judicial procedure for drug trafficking against Hugo Armando “el Pollo” Carvajalformer head of Military Intelligence of the Venezuelan regime. Some papers in which DyJ believes that data will emerge about the ETA members who were “protected” by Nicolás Maduro and their possible relationship with the “escape apparatus.”
Sources from the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court indicated regarding the delay in ruling on the petition request to Venezuela that this procedure “has been in process for a long time” and is being carried out by the Public Ministry “like any other”, in a “participatory” and “active” manner.
Also “Dienteputo”
Daniel Portero, president of Dignity and Justice, He assures that the Prosecutor’s Office “has the obligation to report on a case that has enormous relevance for the rule of law and democracy” because, he emphasizes, “there are dozens of ETA members who have roamed freely and who have financed ETA from Venezuela and with the support of Nicolás Maduro.” “We do not understand the passivity of the Prosecutor’s Office,” complains Portero.
As this newspaper already reported, the move to the front of Dignity and Justice made some of those named react, who through regular lawyers for ETA prisoners requested the filing of their pending cases due to statute of limitations (which would avoid surprises in court in the event that a hypothetical surrender to Spain was authorized as a result of the investigation).
In addition to De Juana Chaos, the list of terrorists about whom information is requested includes, among others, Arturo Cubillas, a senior official in the Chavista Ministry of Agriculture and whom the Court has already claimed without success (and who some sources currently place in Spain); the former leader of ETA and former member of the “Goierri commando” José Luis Eciolaza, “Dienteputo”, convicted of twenty attacks; or Asunción Arana, widow of the ETA member José Miguel Beñarán, “Argala”, who would have been in charge of “finding accommodation for the ETA members.”