The Public Prosecutor summons Edmundo González for the third time

The Public Ministry reported this Thursday that has summoned, for the third time, opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia for Friday, regarding an investigation against him related to the accusation of electoral fraud made by the anti-Chavez movement.

«Quoted for the third time Edmundo González Urrutia to attend the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday“the agency said in a post on Instagram, where it published the summons.

The Prosecutor’s Office warned that if he does not attend on the indicated date, “A warrant for his arrest will be issued” as it is considered that he “is at risk of flight.”

The investigation against González Urrutia is related to the publication of a website, in which the opponent claims to have uploaded “83.5% of the electoral records” collected by witnesses and members of the table on the night of the election, to support his claim of fraud in the July 28 presidential elections, according to the MP.

The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) released these minutes, which the Executive calls “false”, after The National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Nicolás Maduro the winner of the electionswhich has been questioned by numerous countries, some of which support that González Urrutia won by a wide margin.

The Prosecutor’s Office summoned the PUD standard-bearer – initially for last Monday, and when he did not attend, summoned him for Tuesday, when he did not show up either – for “the alleged commission of the crimes of usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, instigation to disobedience of the law, computer crimes, criminal association and conspiracy.”

On Wednesday, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said that Venezuelan jurisprudence allows a person to be cited up to three times.

«There is a third summons that we are going to send you. There are three, according to the jurisprudence of the Criminal Court. A person can be summoned up to three times to, in this case, in his capacity as an investigated person, give a statement about an ongoing process (…) which also links disobedience to the laws“Saab said in statements to the media.

On Sunday, through a video posted on social media, the former ambassador said that the MP “intends to subject him to an interview without specifying the condition under which he is expected to appear and pre-qualifying crimes that he did not commit.”

In his opinion, the Attorney General “has repeatedly behaved like a political accuser” because – he asserted – “he condemns in advance and now promotes a summons without guarantees of independence and due process.”