The president of the National Assembly (AN)Jorge Rodríguez, reported this Tuesday that the number of public officials detained for being allegedly linked to acts of corruptionamounted to 19, and does not rule out that the number will increase.
“There are 19 detainees so far and I’m sure more are coming (…) This investigation is just beginning, there are several dozen judges and officials detained,” he said during the ordinary session of Parliament.
The deputy warned that “if a judge or prosecutor strays from his role, he goes to jail,” as will also happen “if a mayor commits criminal actions.”
«In the Bolivarian Revolution, if a high-ranking PDVSA official commits an act of corruption, his fate will be jail, and we ask for draconian punishments for it (…) Whoever falls, I do not want to see defenders of some mayors yes and others no, because the Whoever is stealing is going to jail,” he emphasized.
Rodríguez affirmed that “Presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro have fought against corruption in a decisive way”, so in his opinion, “the time for justice has arrived. When we refer to the fact that the culprits will fall whoever they are, they also include sectors of the extreme right.
“There must be some corrupt in the Mercedes getting a whiskey to calm the tremor of the hands, that corrupt goes to jail,” he sentenced.
In this sense, he proposed that the Committee on Internal Policy of the Assembly review the penalties that the laws on corruption contemplate, “to be more energetic in the punishments.”
