The Venezuelan Supreme Court in exile asks Interpol to arrest Nicolás Maduro

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The Venezuelan Supreme Court in exile asks Interpol to arrest Nicolás Maduro
The Supreme Court of Justice in exile has decided to initiate the criminal proceedings against Nicolás Maduro and, at the request of Luisa Ortega, the rebel prosecutor, to request Interpol the international arrest warrant against the "son of Chávez". "There is probable cause that crimes of corruption and money laundering have been committed," said the report, released today in a room of the Colombian Senate in Bogotá. The decision to prosecute the president starts his own Everest as well, since the next steps now depend on the Parliament, which must vote to withdraw the president's immunity, and above all, international recognition. The 1999 Constitution, drafted on the initiative of Hugo Chávez, maintains that the Supreme Court has the power to initiate the prosecution of the president and write a ruling with the prior authorization of the National Assembly. The so-called legitimate Supreme Court, which was elected by Parliament itself, will send the ruling to the United Nations, the OAS and the Lima Group. It also plans to attend the Summit of the Americas, which is being held this week in Lima, to announce its resolution. Another of his imminent actions will be the activation of the Palermo Convention against organized crime, as the judges suspect the existence of a powerful international corruption apparatus. In short, a historical decision plagued by doubts, but that relied on the evidence presented by the former rectors of the Venezuelan Public Ministry, who have been investigating the Odebrecht case since 2015. According to these calculations, the Bolivarian governments of Chavez and Maduro would have delivered more than 1,700 million dollars to the Brazilian company for works not executed or completed. "All Venezuelans have the right to know what happened with this money," said magistrate Miguel Ángel Martín, president of the TSJ in exile. Several questions now hover over this judicial decision. The first, if Parliament gives its approval. And the second, if the international community recognizes the court. The Odebrecht case has sprinkled presidents, vice presidents and leaders in Latin America except, until now, the Venezuelan exception, although it was the country where more money was used thanks to the agreements between Chavez and Lula, continued by Maduro. According to the declarations of the Odebrecht rectors before the Brazilian justice, plus the contributions made by the Ortega Prosecutor's Office, from Brazil 43 million were delivered for the presidential campaigns of 2012 and 2013. The Caracas government does not know him, besides accusing him of treason and corruption to Ortega. "The only system of justice in Venezuela is in our country," said prosecutor Tarek William Saab, appointed following the illegal dismissal of Ortega.