Venezuelan prosecutor admits that soldiers have links with drug traffickers

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Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, said that a total of 105 police and military officers have been ordered to his office since August 2017 for being involved in drug trafficking cases, and reported that to date twelve have been defendants.

"Finally 105 officials from the time we are in this Public Ministry, August 5 of last year, 65 have already been accused (...) and the number of twelve convicted, while 40 officials are waiting" of the "corresponding conclusive act," he told reporters.

The official, appointed by the ruling National Constituent Assembly, indicated that among those involved are active and retired officials and that the Prosecutor's Office has opened 65 criminal investigations.

Saab said this when reporting on the seizure of 696 vehicles, mostly private, during the last fifteen months for being used for drug trafficking in the country.

All are at the disposal of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) of Venezuela. The owner of the MP also explained that these vehicles have been captured by the work of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) at the checkpoints and thanks to the intelligence work.

The drug in these vehicles is transported in a camouflaged manner in legal merchandise and hidden in secret spaces

According to him, the drug in these vehicles is transported in a camouflaged manner in legal merchandise and hidden in secret spaces. Saab asked the police and military in the country to be alert to this type of transport of drugs to combat the scourge.