Venezuelan prosecutor maintains that Ronald Ojeda’s crime was a “false flag operation”: he pointed to the alleged participation of Chileans

This Wednesday, the attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saabraised a new line of research on the murder of Ronald Ojedaa military dissident from the government of Nicolás Maduro who was kidnapped in Chile by people who posed as police officers, on February 21.

“This is an operation (…) that had the objective of clouding relations between Chile and Venezuela just when an important rapprochement occurred. The murder of Ronald Ojeda was to politicize him, to instrumentalize a campaign of attack against the Venezuelan State,” he stated.

Likewise, the Venezuelan persecutor maintained – as a theory – “that This murder was committed by foreign intelligence services with the support of Chilean intelligence officials.”. This, considering the Chilean thesis, which qualifies the operation “as a macro band.”

In this context, it is worth mentioning that the chilean authorities They pointed to the political motive and pointed out how possible perpetrators of the kidnapping to the criminal gang “Aragua Train”, of Venezuelan origin but with tentacles in regions of Chile.

More about the crime of Ronald Ojeda

Ronald Ojeda32 years old and retired soldier from the Venezuelan Army, He was kidnapped by people who pretended to be Chilean civil police and that they took him out of his apartment in his underwear at dawn. Nine days later, was found dead inside a suitcase that had been buried.

Last week, the The government of Venezuela finally handed over the information to the Public Ministry required for the investigation of kidnapping and murder of former Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ojeda. All this, after Chile issued a request for international assistance.

For this reason, during the morning of last Thursday, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Hector Barrosconfirmed that all information was provided and assured that the Venezuelan prosecutors -on their trip to Chile- they met with the head of the International Unit and Extraditions (UCIEX) of the National Prosecutor’s Office, Juan Pablo Glasinovic.