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The six former oil managers -five of them with the double Venezuelan and American nationality- they were imprisoned again by the authorities of the Nicolás Maduro regime, almost two months after receiving house arrest, their relatives and the NGO Penal Forum denounced on Thursday.
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According to their versions, Wednesday night agents of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) took from their homes the former executives of the Citgo refiner – a US subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned PDVSA – and held them at the agency’s headquarters in Caracas.
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Tomeu Vadell, former Vice President of Citgo, “was abruptly taken without notice of his arrest to an unknown location in Venezuela,” his daughter said on Twitter Veronica Vadell.
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“We demand to know their whereabouts, but more importantly, their freedom!” Alirio Rafael Zambrano, brother of Alirio and José Luis Zambrano, also former vice presidents of the subsidiary, on Twitter.
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The director of the human rights NGO Venezuelan Criminal Forum, Gonzalo HimiobHe assured the AFP agency that those prosecuted for alleged corruption were taken to Sebin. “They were taken again, supposedly, to resolve a complaint,” he said.
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The Chavista regime authorities have not yet ruled on this.
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Together with Vadell and the Zambrano brothers, the former president of Citgo was arrested again José Ángel Pereira and former vice presidents Jorge Toledo and Gustavo Cárdenas, arrested on November 21, 2017 after being called to meetings in Caracas.
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The businessmen are accused of malicious peculation, money laundering and association to commit crimes, among other crimes.
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After two years in prison, his lawyers requested a review of custodial measures and They obtained house arrest on December 9.
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So, Michael Kozak, the main US diplomat for Latin America, said that although the transfer implied an improvement in his conditions, the “unfair detention” should end.
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The return to the jail of former managers came the same day as the US president, Donald Trump, received the interim president of Venezuela at the White House, Juan Guaidó, who a day earlier had invited his speech on the State of the Union in Congress.
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During that speech, Trump introduced Guaidó as the legitimate president of Venezuela and He promised to “crush the tyranny” de Maduro, who accused him on Wednesday of leading his country to a “high-level conflict against Venezuela.”
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After ignoring the legitimacy of Maduro as president of Venezuela for the fraudulent elections of 2018, Washington granted Guaido – recognized as president in charge of fifty countries – to control Citgo.
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During a brief press conference, Pelosi, in addition to asking for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela, demanded “The release of oil executives captured by the corrupt Maduro regime.”
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