FAN maintain vigilance in Bolivar
Deputy Julio Garcia Jarpa said the work the committee of parliamentarians from the AN in the area affected by illegal mining and has a list of contact persons''who have political clout and will be announced shortly económico''que
Jarpa Garcia, who is part of the parliamentary group investigating the illegal mining in Bolivar state, said that to date has been able to stop this practice to a greater degree of devastation in the federal district and in this regard said that in the next days will disclose the results of the intelligence work done by the various factors involved in this activity framed in the Caura Plan.

He said he has detected the movement of a group of Venezuelan businessmen involved in the crime of illegal mining in Bolivar who live in that state and people of other nationalities with whom they interact first.

"This group is responsible for a first ring of people involved with its expensive machinery. A second ring, which involved traders located in Bolivar and a third, where international traders involved, "Garcia said Jarpa.

With the work being done by the committee of parliamentarians, in coordination with the Armed Forces and other agencies of the Venezuelan State in the state, he said, has succeeded in demobilizing those responsible for this practice. "On one hand, seized more than 90 thousand liters of fuel used by illegal miners for their practice flights. There are no flights in the area by these criminals, "he said.

He also noted that it has failed to halt the departure of about 10 tons of gold and three thousand diamonds.

He denounced the considerable damage that this practice has caused more than 20 years of public funds in the environmental and economic. "There have occurred all crimes he may have caused to our land. Environmental crime, devastation against the wood, against gold, against our diamonds, against our rivers, that have affected some 25 thousand hectares of forests. "

Jarpa Garcia explained that to date have identified over 300 camps used by some 9000 miners who have been moving throughout the state of Bolivar to commit illegal activities. Dams are now 16 people have been caught in this illegal practice.

He said four camps in the National Armed Forces will spend the night on a permanent basis in the state to prevent them from preying on miners back to the environment. "Five thousand troops from the Armed hereinafter will guard the state in a job in the first phase include the evacuation of miners, after the restoration of the area and then the replacement of production in the area, which includes a migration plan miners to other departments in developing, "explained the senator on Tuesday in the" Ideas for Discussion, ANTV broadcast on TV.

Jarpa Garcia announced that the National Assembly is now debating in their respective commissions, the legal instruments that will regulate the environmental and territorial. Namely, are discussing reforms to the Mining Law, Criminal Law of Environment and Physical Planning Act, so as to include strong standards for better environmental conservation and inflict greater punishment for those regulations. "

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