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The one who was head of the intelligence services of Venezuela under the Chavez regime, Hugo Carvajal , aka El Pollo - provisionally released since September 16 after denying the National Court his extradition to the United States -, asked the court during his stay in the Estremera prison ( Madrid ), to be transferred to another penitentiary center so as not to share prison with the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo "for security reasons".

This is stated in the brief that Carvajal's defense sent to the Third Section of the Criminal Chamber , to which this newspaper had access. El Pollo shared prison and module with the former police officer - investigated for crimes of criminal organization, bribery, laundering and embezzlement, among others - and came to hire the professional services of Villarejo's lawyer, Antonio José García Cabrera , for his defense in the case of extradition.

Carvajal was arrested on April 12 and has been in prison for five months. On July 11, one of his new legal representatives, Ismael Oliver , sent the magistrates the request to transfer this Venezuelan military from Estremera to the Soto del Real prison alleging "the situation created" since Carvajal decided to change his legal address.

According to the alleged facts, referred to the court, "since that change of legal address" there was "interference" with the visits that Carvajal received in prison. In the aforementioned brief, the appearance of information in the media is described describing the details of the visits.

"Not only the specific days in which my defendant receives visits, but also who is it, and even the state of mind in which these visits conclude and who are accompanied" is published, according to the facts referred to the National Court .

Despite this, Carvajal has remained in Estremera prison until the Third Section decreed his provisional release last Monday.

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