Hugo Carvajal, the former head of the military counterintelligence during the governments of Hugo Chávez, entered the Dominican Republic using a fake passport issued by the General Prosecutor in Venezuela.
According to the Spanish news agency, the passport was under the name of Jose Mourinho, the same name as the famous Portuguese football trainer.
The news agency said that Carvajal had left Venezuela on a boat for a 16-hour crossing to the DR, where he was admitted using his fake passport to enter.
From the Dominican Republic, he then took a flight to Spain, arriving there on 18 March. He lived with his son in Madrid until he was arrested by the Spanish police, who were alerted to his presence by the United States customs’ intelligence service.
In addition, according to the Spanish press, the United States says he has supposedly been involved in a shipment of 5, 600 kilos of cocaine that were still in Mexico when a technical problem affected the plane that would have transported the drugs.
Carvajal has previously denied links to drug dealing and the FARC in Colombia and is fighting his extradition from Spain.
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Listin Diario
16 April 2019