Sunad did not clarify whether drugs were seized during the operation, nor the accusations against those arrested.
The mayor of the Venezuelan municipality Jesús María Semprúm, the Chavista Keyrineth Fernández, was arrested along with five other people, two of them deputies, in an operation against drug trafficking, the National Anti-Drug Superintendence (Sunad) reported this Friday.
The councilor of the town, bordering Colombia and located in the northwestern state of Zulia, was arrested in an operation carried out this Thursday as part of “joint work with state intelligence forces,” Sunad said in a statement.
In it, “Taína González (deputy for the state of Zulia) and Luis Viloria Chirinos (deputy for the state of Táchira)” were also arrested.
The list of detainees is completed by three other people: Victor Cano Páez, Jeikar Pérez and Robert Montaña Viloria.
“The investigations are underway and new arrests are not ruled out and will be reported in due time. With this effective action against the mafias, our merciless fight against attempted illicit drug trafficking and corruption in our impregnable territory is ratified,” Sunad added in its statement.
With this operation, called “Iron Hand”, the authorities consider that they have dealt “a heavy blow” to this network that operated in the states of Zulia and Falcón.
Sunad did not clarify whether drugs were seized during the operation, nor the accusations against those arrested or the role played by each of them. (I)
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