Venezuelan former main spy pleads guilty of accusation

Vanessa Bushalter

Editor Latin America, BBC News Online

Former Venezuelan Intelligence Head of Venezuelan Intelligence Aga Karvakhal speaks during the extradition hearings in the Supreme Court in Madrid, Spain, September 12, 2019.Reuters

Hoga Karvadhal once was one of the most powerful and feared officials in Venezuela

Former Venezuelan Military Intelligence Head of Venezuela’s Military Intelligence – also known as “El Paul”, or chicken – pleaded guilty of drug trafficking and drug -theterism in the United States.

US officials have accused 65 years of age of being part of the drug smuggling, consisting of high-ranking participants in the Venezuelan military.

Wine’s wine is the last turn in the death of Karvadzhal from the Boyan Spoke to condemnation through his shameful arrest in Madrid, where he was noticed, despite the fact that they put on fake mustache and wig.

Karvadjal, who was a close ally of the late President Venezuela Hugo Chavez, is believed to have key information about Chavez’s successor Nicolas Maduro.

Karvakhal was part of the Cartel de Los Siels (the Cartel of the Sun) – named after the suns that represent the lapels of high -ranking Venezuelan military officers – in accordance with A statement published by the US Prosecutor’s Office in the South District of New YorkWhere Karvadjal was supposed to go to court in the coming days.

“For many years, he and other officials in Cartel de Los Soles have used cocaine as weapons – flooding New York and other American cities with poison,” the statement said.

It adds that he cooperated with the left rebels of the revolutionary armed forces in neighboring Colombia, whom he supplied with weapons and whose supplies cocaine to the US through Venezuela he defended.

According to US Prosecutor Jay Kletan, Karvachal has received millions of payment.

The fact that Karvadzhal changed his request to “guilty” two years after he denied that all charges against him had assumed that he may have reached an agreement on a smaller sentence in exchange for providing a Maduro government.

Five years ago, US accused Maduro in the “People’s Commissar-Terrorism” imposed sanctions on him and his internal circle.

According to the former head of the spy, Karvadzhal has access to the wealth of materials about the current and past Venezuelan governments.

Relations between Karvadjal and Maduro went bad in 2017, when the anti -government protests that Karvadjal spoke in favor of the country.

They completely crashed in 2019, when Karvadzal called on the military to return the opposition Juan Guad’s opposition to overthrow Maduro.

When the military remained loyal to Maduro, Karvachal fled to Spain.

After several years during which he was on running, he finally searched for an apartment in Madrid and extradited to the United States.

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