A federal judge in Miami set a million-dollar compensation for a Venezuelan exiled in USA who sued the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroother members of the high-ranking civil and military power of that country, as well as the FARC and the Cartel de los Soles, for kidnapping and torture.
Judge Federico A. Moreno determined that the lawyer Carlos Marrón, who was detained for 878 days and alleges to have been tortured during his captivity in Venezuela, his wife and their two minor children must be compensated with 153 million dollars.
To comply with the ruling, the court can seize assets of the defendants, who were sentenced in contempt for their lack of response to the judicial requirements, according to the judicial documents of the case to which EFE had access.
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In addition to Maduro, the FARC, the Cartel de los Soles, are the subject of the lawsuit Vladimir Padrino López, Minister of Defense; Maikel José Moreno Pérez, head of the Supreme Court; Néstor Luis Reverol, Minister of Electric Power and before the Interior; Tarek William Saab, Attorney General, and Tareck El Aissami, Minister of Oil.
The lawsuit was filed in 2022 by Marrón also on behalf of his wife and their two minor children under the United States Anti-Terrorism Act.
The compensation provided by this law triples in this case because there is a similar law in Florida, with other amounts of compensation.
Brown’s wife is assigned 45 million dollars and each of the two children of the marriage 15 million to compensate for the suffering they suffered due to the imprisonment of the head of the family.
The plaintiff is awarded $78 million, according to the ruling.
Marrón, who had gone into exile in the US, decided to return to Venezuela in 2018 when he learned that his father had been arrested and imprisoned on charges of trying to undermine the country’s economic order with a web page with information about the foreign exchange market. In Venezuela.
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His case was mentioned in reports by international organizations on human rights violations.
Marrón invoked the law that allows US citizens victims of terrorist organizations outside the country to sue them in US courts, alleging that the Maduro government and the military who allegedly run the Cartel de los Soles have relations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). , who are considered terrorists in the US.
It is not the first time that members of power in Venezuela have been sentenced under this US anti-terrorism law.
The family of Venezuelan opposition councilor Fernando Albán, who died in 2018 while in prison in Caracas (Venezuela), sued the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, other Venezuelan authorities and the Colombian FARC guerrilla in Miami (Florida, USA) for “damages”.
A court sentenced them in 2022 to pay 73 million dollars to the Albáns.
Albán was arrested on October 5, 2018 upon his return to the country from the United States on charges of being involved in the drone attack during a military parade in which Nicolás Maduro participated on August 4, 2018.
He died three days after entering the cells of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) in Caracas due to suicide according to the official version, which was widely rejected.
Source: EFE
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