Four men are sentenced to 30 years in prison for alleged electrical sabotage on the Tigre I line
Four men who allegedly participated in a plan to sabotage electrical installations were sentenced to 30 years in prison. located in the Transmission Tower No. 19, 20 and 21 400Kva, of the Tigre I Line of Anzoátegui – Sucre.
The men identified as Freddy Llovera, Pedro Rodríguez, Wilfredo Martínez and Brayan González, allegedly committed the theft of profiles and iron bases from the installation of the Tigre I line.
Those accused of robbery on the Tigre I line were tried by a terrorism court
The sentence was issued this Thursday by the 3rd Court of First Instance in Trial Functions with national jurisdiction and competence in cases related to crimes associated with terrorism.
The men were accused of terrorism, criminal association and illicit trade in strategic materials.provided for and sanctioned in the Organic Law against Organized Crime and Financing of Terrorism.
The sentence, which is the maximum sentence applied in Venezuela, responds to a request made by the President of the Republic to the Attorney General’s Office to apply “the full weight of the law” to those who attack the National Electrical System (SEN). , according to a press release from the National Electric Corporation.
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