The Court rejects the attempt to delay the extradition of 'El Pollo' Carvajal and reiterates to the Police its delivery order

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The

the National Court has revolted against Judge

attempt to prevent

former Venezuelan military officer Hugo

Carvajal from being extradited to the

before appearing as a witness to testify on the alleged irregular financing of We can.

The response of the Chamber to the official letter sent by the investigating judge yesterday, in which he informed him that he had summoned Carvajal as a witness the next day 27, has been that that does not change anything "There is no place to suspend, or to postpone the materialization of the extraditional delivery to the authorities of the United States of North America of the claimed Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios or to participate in said particular court in relation to the execution phase of the delivery, which is exclusive to this Section as the sole authority competent judicial system ", affirms the court presided over by the magistrate

.

The Chamber recalls that Carvajal is cited in a case that began in 2016 on events prior to his arrest and that when he was at the disposal of the court, he did not request such a statement, nor did he "during the long period of almost two years that the process has lasted. extradition ".

The court appreciates a "delaying strategy" on the part of Carvajal in attempting to collaborate now with the Spanish Justice, which adds to the delay in delivery caused by his escape.

It adds that according to the law, his position as a witness "is not a cause for suspension" of the delivery and that in any case the pending witness statement could be made "through the mechanisms of legal cooperation in criminal matters" signed by

and the United States. For example, by videoconference.

The Chamber agrees to communicate its decision to the

and to the chief commissioner of the

. It informs the latter that "it will only and exclusively attend to the orders sent by this

of the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court, as the only competent authority to resolve this extraditional case."

Apart from what happened in the criminal field, Carvajal's defense has also been activated in the contentious-administrative field.

There he has appealed the Interior's refusal to grant asylum to the former head of Intelligence during the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.

The only option to avoid an effective delivery, which now seems imminent, would be to obtain a precautionary measure that would paralyze their departure from Spain.

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