• Provisional prison: Police do not locate former Venezuelan military espionage chief Hugo Carvajal for delivery to the US

The National Police considers that the former head of Venezuelan military espionage Hugo Carvajal has fled from Spain. The Plenary Session of the National Court revoked last Friday the initial refusal to extradite the military to the United States and agreed to surrender to the US authorities. Immediately, the section in charge of the issue issued a search and seizure order.

Legal and police sources indicate that 'el Pollo' Carvajal, as he is usually known, could not be located at the address he had communicated to the court and that they could not find his whereabouts. Initially, the search was in the hands of the Judicial Police, now it has already been transferred to the officials that make up the fugitive search group. It works with the hypothesis that Carvajal has fled from Spain and, for this, has used a false passport. Its original documentation is in the hands of the Spanish Justice.

The escape from Carvajal has generated a strong malaise in sectors of State security and Intelligence, which are still surprised how the one who was head of the espionage of Venezuela has been able to escape the Spanish judicial and police control. They do not rule out that the fled now had "privileged" information on the decision that was to be taken at the National Court on his extradition to the United States and had time to flee before the court notified his decision.

These sectors fail to understand that there was no "minimum control" over the claimed. They understand that from the Ministry of the Interior, directed by Fernando Grande Marlaska , there should have been a "special sensitivity" on this case.

When he was arrested in 2017 as a result of the extradition request, Carvajal carried a false Venezuelan documentation. He entered a provisional prison where he remained until last September 16, the Third Section of the Hearing denied the delivery. He did it for three reasons: drug trafficking accusations were vague, Carvajal's actions had been military and the American complaint responded to "political motives."

Carvajal, 59, and today an opponent of Nicolás Maduro, was head of the intelligence and military counterintelligence services of Venezuela between 2000 and 2011. According to the US, the hand of the late Hugo Chávez was responsible for implementing a plan to make it arrive to American territory drugs of the FARC.

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