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The National Police arrested former Venezuelan General

Hugo 'el Pollo' Carvajal

this Thursday night in Madrid

,

who was a fugitive from Justice wanted for his extradition to the United States.

As reported by the

National Police,

Carvajal lived "totally cloistered, without going outside or looking out the window, and always protected by trusted people."

The former head of the Venezuelan secret services of the

Hugo Chávez

regime

was internationally claimed by the

United States

for a drug trafficking crime and was initially arrested in 2019.

After being brought to justice, he was provisionally released and escaped the moment he learned that the handover to the United States was about to take place.

The arrest was carried out at 9:15 p.m. this Thursday by

Group II of Fugitives of the Central UDYCO,

in a joint operation with the

DEA,

according to police sources informed Europa Press.

The fugitive was hiding in

Torrelaguna street in Madrid.

The entry into the building where

Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios

was hiding

was carried out by judicial authorization, with the collaboration of the

Police Intervention Unit (UIP)

to proceed with the order.

Currently, the detainee had a valid arrest warrant and imprisonment for the execution of the extradition issued by the third section of the

National Court.

'El Pollo' Carvajal, at the AN.POOL

In March 2020, the

Council of Ministers

approved the delivery to the United States of the former Venezuelan general to be tried for the alleged crimes of drug trafficking and arms trafficking.

The Executive's decision was made despite the fact that he had been unaccounted for since November 2019, when the National Court had already decided on his delivery.

Whoever was head of the

Military Counterintelligence Directorate of Venezuela

for eight years in the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro is claimed by the US for events that occurred between 1999 and 2019, "when he allegedly belonged to the so-called

Cartel of the Suns,

dedicated to the transport of drug shipments ".

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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