Businessman Ricardo Albacete Vidal, who hosted Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at his home when she traveled through the state of Táchira on June 27 and 28, has been detained, the CNN your lawyer Omar Mora Tosta.
The criminal lawyer added that relatives of Albacete Vidal, who is also a Spanish citizen, reported that he was intercepted on Thursday (11) by a group of men who did not identify themselves when they passed through the hotel facilities where the businessman was staying in Caracas.
Mora Tosta described the detention as “arbitrary” and said that until now Albacete “remains missing because there is no information”.
The jurist argued that Albacete has suffered persecution in recent days and that even his companies and properties located in the interior of the country have been shaken.
In these proceedings, the lawyer said that several workers were detained without the authorities presenting an arrest warrant for anyone.
A CNN contacted the Public Prosecutor’s Office to find out details about the case, but so far there has been no response. However, the MP has called a press conference for the next few hours.
Mora said he visited the Sebin-Helicoid headquarters [propriedade do governo venezuelano utilizada como prisão] and the Bolivarian National Police to request information about the whereabouts of his client, but received no response.
The lawyer assures that Albacete, 72 years old, is in any case innocent of any wrongdoing. And he highlighted that, in the case of people over 70 years old, if they are found guilty of a crime, the law provides for house arrest.
He added that arrests and sieges are systematically taking place at restaurants, hotels and guesthouses that served or otherwise had contact with María Corina Machado and the presidential candidate of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), Edmundo González Urrutia.
He assures that even sound equipment, trucks or people’s horns were confiscated.
Machado took measures such as staying in private homes to avoid the closure of inns and hotels, while González Urrutia resorted to taking lunch boxes to events to avoid the closure of restaurants, as occurred over the weekend at an establishment in the state of Cojedes and earlier at a hotel in Maracaibo where Machado stayed in May.
Source: CNN Brasil
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