The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office is processing a request for an arrest warrant against Argentine President Javier Milei, against whom it has opened “an investigation” for the “theft” of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane that was held in Buenos Aires since June 2022 and was sent to the United States in February 2024, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on Wednesday.
The institution “announces the assignment of two specialized prosecutors in the matter, who are carrying out the relevant proceedings in the case and are processing the arrest warrant” also against the Secretary General of the Presidency of Argentina, Karina Milei, and the Minister of Security of the southern country, Patricia Bullrich.
“This will have its consequences in the next few hours in a competent court here in Venezuela with the respective arrest warrants in the relevant competent bodies, because this cannot go unpunished,” said Saab, whose statements were broadcast by the state channel VTV.
The official explained that, in the case of the plane, which was “completely dismantled” in the United States, according to Venezuelan law, the crimes of “aggravated robbery, money laundering, unlawful deprivation of liberty, simulation of a punishable act, unlawful interference, disabling of aircraft and criminal association” were committed.
On the other hand, Saab announced the appointment of a “specialized prosecutor in matters of protection of human rights to carry out the corresponding investigations” against Milei and Bullrich for “the actions committed against the Argentine people.”
“We could be in the presence of serious violations of human rights that could constitute crimes against humanity,” he said. In this regard, the prosecutor – who called Milei a “fascist” and a “neo-Nazi” – said that in Argentina a “premeditated program of institutional violence” is being applied against its population, which is why he pointed to the president of the southern country as “the most ferocious violator of human rights on the continent” and as “a brutal danger for the entire hemisphere.”
In September, the Argentine Foreign Ministry urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to request an arrest warrant against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and “other leaders of the regime” in light of “the worsening of the situation” following the presidential elections in the Caribbean country on July 28.
#Venezuela #issued #arrest #warrant #Argentine #President #Javier #Milei #Diario #Página
