More than 20,000 people charged with corruption since 2017

A total of 21,871 people have been charged with corruption in Venezuela since August 2017, according to the balance offered this Tuesday by the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, who highlighted the investigations into embezzlement and embezzlement within the state oil company PDVSA.

In a televised statement, Saab explained that the Public Ministry has revealed 36 corruption schemes linked to the oil industry – which provides the country’s main source of income -, which has left a balance of 307 people prosecuted, of which, 76 have already received sentences.

In general terms, he indicated, the accusations made by the Prosecutor’s Office served to achieve, so far, 6,025 convictions for this crime.

Saab highlighted the “unpublished fact” of the purge within the Public Ministry, since, since he assumed the leadership of this office -in August 2017-, Justice has prosecuted 453 prosecutors, for being officials who “departed” from the law.

In terms of human rights, an issue that he considered a “flag”, He said that in the last seven years and three months, 2,707 people have been charged with violations of these guarantees.

This, he added, translated into the deprivation of liberty of 1,096 people, including 662 who have already been sentenced, thanks – he considered – to a “sustained effort that has been reflected in a significant decrease of the denunciation of human rights violations” in the country.

In addition, Saab attacked the opposition and assured that his office has “defeated” a plan by the majority opposition that sought to “impose a violent coup and unleash a civil war in Venezuela,” after the presidential elections on July 28. He insisted that the opposition alliance supposedly had a plan “to bathe Venezuela in blood from July to December,” for which – he recalled – more than 2,000 people were detained, including several opposition leaders.

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