[News] Maduro's prosecutor threatens to process an arrest warrant against Edmundo González if he does not appear

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The Attorney General's Office announced on Thursday the third summons against the diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia to appear today Friday "in order to give an interview in relation to the facts that this office is investigating related to the publication and maintenance of the website resultadosconVzla.com." In an attempt to force pressure on the winner of the presidential elections to leave the country, the Attorney General's Office announced that if he does not appear, as the ambassador has planned, "the corresponding arrest warrant will be processed."

 

 

 

The legal justification of Chavismo is the alleged risk of the accused fleeing, as well as of obstructing the case. "What the Public Prosecutor's Office would be trying to do is argue that after having summoned the party three times without his appearance, an arrest would be justified in order to take him away by force. This is what is known in Criminal Procedural Law as a warrant for his arrest," explained the jurist Nizar El Fakih to EL MUNDO.

 

And for this transfer to take place before the Public Prosecutor's Office, the prosecutor would have to, according to Venezuelan law, make a prior request to a criminal control court in Caracas. It would be this court that would approve it. "In theory, the purpose of the transfer order is only to force the person to appear and give a statement, but not to keep him detained," added El Fakih.

 

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