Spanish justice on Tuesday suspended the extradition of Hugo Armando
Carvajal Barris, known as the ‘Chicken’ Carvajal, A former Chavista detainee arrested in Madrid last week and considered the most wanted fugitive in the United States for drug trafficking, until the Spanish Interior Ministry resolves his asylum application.
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Sources from the Spanish National High Court reported the court decision in a recent resolution stating that, having made the request for asylum before the Spanish Ministry, the temporary suspension of delivery is mandatory.
the exgeneral chavista entered a Madrid prison last Friday after being arrested a day earlier in a house in the capital, where he was hiding, a home that changed every three months during the almost two years he has been on the run, from which he only left at night on their terraces.
Carvajal, who had undergone cosmetic surgery operations, was Venezuela’s head of military counterintelligence in the governments of Hugo Chávez and the current president, Nicolás Maduro.
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The United States accuses him of drug trafficking, money laundering and collaboration with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to introduce drugs into American territory.
In parallel with his asylum application, Carvajal’s defense applied on Friday to the Supreme Court of Spain to suspend as a precaution the agreement with which the Spanish Government gave the green light to his delivery in March last year after being authorized by the National Court. At that time, the former Venezuelan general was already on the run from justice. EFE