A Spanish court has suspended the extradition of former Chavista intelligence chief Hugo “El Pollastre” Carvajal to the United States

The Third Criminal Section of the National High Court, a Spanish court based in Madrid and with jurisdiction throughout the national territory, decided to suspend the delivery of Hugo “The Chicken” Carvajal to the United States.

Judges Alfonso Guevara, Carlos Fraile and María Teresa García they temporarily halted the extradition of the former Venezuelan spy, who was accused by US authorities of “flooding cocaine” in the country along with the FARC.

“The materialization of the delivery is suspended“, Points out the court ruling, until the Ministry of the Interior reports on the asylum petition filed by Carvajal in 2019.

The National Police of Spain arrested on 9 September in Madrid to Hugo Armando Carvajal, known as “Chicken Carvajal”, former Venezuelan Chavista general in unknown whereabouts since November 2019 and who was claimed by the US to be tried by drug trafficking, bleaching i collaboration with the FARC.

The arrest took place at 21:15 local time on Torrelaguna Street in the capital by members of the group 2 of National Police Fugitives, In collaboration with agents of the American DEA, Agency that had reported last June 17 to the Spanish Police that the chavista was hiding in a flat in Madrid after undergoing cosmetic surgery and camouflaging himself with wigs and costumes.

In the DEA letter, it is stated that Carvajal Barris was “living in the city of Madrid in an apartment in the area of ​​Arturo Soria“And I lived with the Venezuelan citizen Astrid Carolina Viloria Palau.

Then, the text of the DEA addressed to the Spanish Police states: “We inform you of other details that could be useful in locating and arresting this fugitive: the Viloria Palaces department is on the third or fourth floor of a building in the area. The terrace of the department has many plants that Carvajal Barris uses to obscure his face when he goes out to use it.”.

And he emphasizes: “Carvajal Barris is known to wear wigs and costumes to go unnoticed. There are also indications that plastic surgery will have been done to change your physical appearance”.

the journalist Gabriela Ponte, From the newspaper ABC, Has delimited that the Venezuelan used to ask for food for delivery and did not leave the building, According to neighbors consulted. Meanwhile, the communicator David Placer advance that the defense of “El Pollastre” has already appealed considering that the arrest was “illegal”. They reported that “illegal wiretaps” were carried out which led to their arrest.

Carvajal, who had an arrest warrant and was in prison for extradition to the United States, he was in a home protected by several people at the time of arrest. In this house, according to sources, he was a refugee.

The entrance to the property has been carried out by judicial authorization and was executed by members of the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), the riot police. He was later transferred to the premises of the Group of fugitives located in the police complex of Canillas.

This is the second time that Carvajal has been arrested in Spain. He was also arrested in Madrid in April 2019 after entering the European country with a false passport, but the National High Court denied his extradition on the understanding that the US was claiming him for “political motivation”. so he was released.

Months later, in November 2019, the plenary of the Criminal Chamber of the Court finally agreed to his extradition, but Carvajal had already disappeared.

Still on the run, his lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court the agreement reached by the Council of Ministers on March 3 to execute the extradition after it was authorized by the National High Court, and they requested the precautionary suspension of the order alleging that the allegations were not true and that the sole purpose of the US is to torture to obtain information about Venezuela.

Carvajal was head of the Direction of Military Counterintelligence of Venezuela during eight years, in the governments of Hugo Chávez and Mature Nicholas, And the United States accuses him of drug trafficking, money laundering and collaboration with the FARC to introduce drugs into American territory.

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