A Venezuelan court issued a judgment on Monday a preventive detention order“, previously requested by the public prosecutor’s office, against the Argentine president, Javier Mileifor “robbery” and six other crimes related to the case of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane detained in Buenos Aires and sent to the United States in February.
In a statement, the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) explained that, following the request of the prosecution, the arrest order was accepted against Milei, as well as against the Secretary General of Argentina, Karina Milei, and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichreports the Efe agency.
The TSJ said the arrest warrant relates to the alleged crimes of “aggravated theft, money laundering, simulation of punishable actsunlawful deprivation of liberty, unlawful interference with the operational security of civil aviation and neutralization of aircraft and conspiracy to commit a crime.
On September 18, Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek William Saabreported on the request and processing of the arrest warrant against Milei – for which it has opened “an investigation” – for the “theft” of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane held in Buenos Aires since June 2022 and sent to the United States last February.
The public prosecutor’s office has announced the appointment of two prosecutors specializing in this matter, “those who are conducting the relevant procedures in the case“.
Saab also announced the appointment of a “specialized prosecutor for the protection of human rights to conduct the corresponding investigations” against Milei and Bullrich for “the actions committed against the Argentine people.”
“We don’t care”
“We could be in the presence of serious violations of human rights that could constitute crimes against humanity,” he said. On Friday, the Argentine government declared that he doesn’t care “at all” about “nonsense” What Venezuela’s “dictatorial” executive says about Milei.
“This is all ridiculous. A dictatorship does not need to understand the division of powers, but the decision regarding the plane is a judicial decision of Argentina and not of the president of the country,” the presidential spokesman said. Manuel Adorniin a press conference reported by Efe.
This month, Argentina’s foreign ministry urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek an arrest warrant for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and “other leaders of the regime”given the “worsening situation” following the presidential elections in the Caribbean country on July 28.
