DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Mainstream Latin American newspapers are reporting this week on the pending, belated reversal of the murder convictions of convicted murderers and confessed drug traffickers and terrorists Walter Alexander del Nogal and Ramiro Helmeyer Quevedo, on the grounds that the victim has mysteriously reappeared after more than a decade. World-Check exclusively first reported upon this corrupt effort to nullify the convictions back in the January 3rd article "Will Venezuela erase a murder conviction in the Antonini case?" We first exposed the multi-million dollar bribe paid to a senior judge to erase an old homicide conviction for two senior officers of DISIP, Venezuela's national intelligence (read that as Secret) police, who are closely linked to the defendants presently imprisoned in Miami, which is scheduled to go to trial in June upon charges of those defendants being unregistered foreign agents. You may recall that del Nogal and Helmeyer are infamous for throwing a narcotics competitor out of an aircraft at an altitude of several thousand feet over the Caribbean. These people are certainly not deserving of the functional equivalent of a pardon under any objective legal grounds.
Sr. del Nogal is presently in custody in Italy, having been arrested last September, and has been charged with trafficking in narcotics, with the alleged customer being the Sicilian Mafia.
Will a corrupt court actually erase the Venezuelan murder convictions of these two thugs for purely political reasons? If so, its is just another illustration of the sad fact that the the rule of law has totally disappeared in that country. If you have clients who are transacting business with Venezuelan companies, they should be advised that their chances for recovering against such clients in any legitimate business dispute is zero in the corrupt Venezuelan court system.
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