He national prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, did not rule out that crime of the former Venezuelan military man, Ronald Ojeda, has been ordered “by someone who is not in Chile.”
In conversation with Radio thereValencia confirmed that The only one arrested in this case and the other two suspects, who are currently wanted, are linked to a cell of the “Tren de Aragua”.” and that the kidnapping of the former soldier, which occurred on February 21, was “atypical”.
“We already know,” he said, “that if there is a gang that is part of, that we can call, that responds to the characteristics of transnational organized crime, It is likely that he acts based on orders that are given by someone who is not inside Chile. But all of this has to be investigated,” he said. 24Horas.
Valencia explained that a new criminal phenomenon is currently operating, called “uberization”which consists of “subcontracting, franchising, people who act with the authorization of, who have sufficient levels of autonomy and independence, who occupy the brand to spread fear, with the authorization of the higher structure, but with sufficient levels of autonomy. So, we have to investigate what happened.”
Despite this background, the prosecutor does not rule out that there is a political motivation behind the crime of Ronald Ojeda.
Likewise, Valencia stated that this crime is “atypical”, since there is no record that there was extortion behind Ojeda’s kidnappingalthough the Aragua Train is recognized for “kidnap to extort” and also for “sell” to the victims.
“We also wonder why they simply did not pick him up from the street, when he was on his way home, These are also questions that we asked ourselves (…) the reasons why they carried out this deployment, we are going to have to establish with the investigation,” he pointed out.
Finally, he expressed that this crime “is atypical” and that “The level of logistics used at the beginning for this particular kidnapping is striking.”but we also have to remember that he was not an ordinary citizen, he was a former military man, and it is possible that that was in the heads of the people who planned the kidnapping.”
2024-03-04 15:22:00