Armando.info: Connections with the CNE make the sun shine for Chavismo’s military attorney general

In 2015, the then Army major, Elías Plasencia Mondragón, won “a prize”: the position of military attaché of the Venezuelan embassy in the United Kingdom. Thus the regime rewarded him for his good offices in the investigation in military courts of the case of the so-called Blue Coup, an alleged conspiracy within the Air Force, as well as other delicate and key tasks for the government, such as the signing of the sentence. for fabricated corruption against the former Minister of Defense, Raúl Baduel, who would die in prison in 2021.

The incentive was more effective than expected. Already in London, Plasencia expanded his activities beyond those of a military attaché. It incorporated at least three companies in British jurisdiction: Nakatomi Ltd, DG&G Ltd and Real Estate Paradise Ltd.

This recent month of September 2024, Tarek William Saab, the Chavista attorney general appointed by the irritated 2018 Constituent Assembly, dressed in a camouflage-printed Columbia brand jumpsuit, swore in Plasencia Mondragón, now a colonel, as the new military attorney general.

Between one designation and another, one piece of evidence remains unchanged: that of the willingness of the government of Nicolás Maduro to reward their services.

And there is another, less obvious link.

When Plasencia Mondragón was appointed military attaché in London, he expanded his activities beyond those of his position. He established at least three companies in British jurisdiction: Nakatomi Ltd, DG&G Ltd and Real Estate Paradise Ltd. Although striking, the business venture did not entail any illegality, since the regulations for military attachés abroad, in force then and since 2007, do not expressly prohibit this activity.

But his small corporate emporium in England provides clues, however, about the current connections of the Army officer with the National Electoral Council (CNE), the entity from which the conspiracy that allowed Nicolás Maduro to be ratified as president of Venezuela in the elections was hatched. elections of the recent July 28, in the shadow of highly questioned official results.

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