Minister Cabello: PNB police officers involved in extorting tourists are being arrested and will be expelled
Con El Mazo Dando
Published at: 12/02/2025 11:22 PM
The Minister of Popular Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, reported that the three officials of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) who were involved in extorting a French tourist and a Mexican tourist, have already been arrested, who reported police extortion in Barquisimeto for the discovery of a drone in their luggage.
He noted that the officials are: José María Vargas Vásquez, Inderson José Chirinos and Enderson José Mena Leal, “at the order of the courts.”
“This appeared on the networks, and I ordered an immediate investigation to the head of the Bolivarian National Police, and we identified the police who participated in this,” he said in the Con El Mazo Dando program, celebrating its 11th Anniversary, broadcast number 515.
In that sense, he explained that in the National Armed Forces (FANB) whoever dishonors the uniform, “is discharged with half a turn. I ordered the head of the Bolivarian National Police to expel them with half a turn.”
He specified that the half-turn, “is that everyone turns their backs on them and has to leave because they have dishonored the Bolivarian National Police.”
Cabello, addressing the students of the National Experimental Security University (UNES), present in the program, emphasized that “I will defend them as far as I have to defend them, but whoever gets in trouble for extortion, I'll take it ahead of me, whatever you call it”.
“I don't care how long I have in the police, but no official is going to dishonor the uniform of the Bolivarian National Police. Not a single one,” he said.
He stressed that these officials, with the aforementioned procedure, “misrepresent the name of Venezuela in the world. The full weight of the law, expelled half way and brought to court to be tried for the crime they committed. It's justice.”
“I don't take the ladder away from anyone, but if you break the rules, that's how far we go. Never more,” he said.