Security forces apprehended two businessmen linked to destabilization attempts

Published at: 12/07/2024 01:23 PM

The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, made statements to the media to report the progress made by the Public Ministry (MP) regarding the investigation initiated in response to the allegation of attempts to destabilize peace in the country, in the face of the upcoming presidential elections.

In this regard, he specified that, after gathering sufficient evidence of conviction, arrest warrants were requested before the competent courts against Aldo Roso Vargas and Ricardo Alberto Albacete Vidal.

He also issued search warrants on a building in Caracas; one in Táchira and one in Mérida, linked to these citizens mentioned, where it was possible to verify that these citizens had in their possession a large amount of strategic material, belonging to CORPOELEC, valued at 150,000 dollars.

Among the materials seized, the following stand out: approximately 20 electrical transformers, 500 kilograms of high-voltage guayas, approximately 50 electrical lightning rods, approximately 250 aluminum ingots weighing 13 kilos each, 23 pimpines containing dielectric oil inside, five oxygen nitrogen cylinders for the maintenance of electrical transformers; about 72 suspension insulators and wire coils of different diameters.

The owner of the tax action indicated that the investigations revealed that this company functioned as a collection center for strategic material stolen from the National Electric System (SEN) to be used as raw material in products manufactured by it.

In addition, he said that with intelligence information, it was possible to determine that the detainees have received funding from abroad to “sustain the campaign of the extreme neo-Nazi right and movements to destabilize the country”; therefore, they are linked to sectors of the Colombian extreme right, such as former Colombian presidents Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque.

Mazo News Team