Former Mayor of Sifontes: not convincing for his release

Source: Agencies
21/12/10

The names of the judges Deyanira Nieves Bastidas, Eladio Ramón Aponte Aponte, more recently, Luis Ignacio Zerpa, since the Supreme Court are among those mentioned in the successive rulings on the case followed the former mayor of the municipality in Bolívar state Sifontes , Chancellor Carlos Marcelino Ferrer. In other courts, after accusations by the prosecution, no reasonable elements have conviction in the arguments of the defense prove the innocence of the accused, since September 2005.
In the weekly "The Critic" of Guiana, in February this year, recalled that the charges against the former mayor Chancellor, who rose from the ranks of La Causa R to the PPT, would be for the crime of intentional injury caused in scuffle with provocative title. However, leaders of both parties cling to discredit the judicial institutions as extrajudicial defense weapon, not knowing that these decisions are being upheld in various courts that have been submitted.
The alleged criminal actions have taken place during the closure of the entrance to the village of Las Claritas, a group of protesters allegedly puffed by the now convicted, in addition to attacking with punches and blunt objects to members of the National Guard and the Army, which presented on the site to try to restore order. They also burned the truck model Chevrolet Blazer, year 97, green, belonging to the company Crystallex Interntional Corporation.
"At that time, about 200 people, instigated by Chancellor William accompanied by Saud and Pedro Pérez Lorenzo, attacked with stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails at the van in which the National Guard moved Héctor José Patiño Vasquez and more Felix Guillen Rivas who in the midst of the attack was stolen from his gun regulations. "
The above descriptions are taken from the report of the Public Ministry, which could be read also that such acts of violence, according to the proceedings were being instigated by the use of illegal radio stations and Adventure Adventure Net where information is disseminated alarming chased generate anxieties, endangering public peace.
Adventure Net was found located in Las Claritas, after the search authorized by the Third Court of Criminal Judicial Circuit in Bolivar State, (sic) It was determined the illegal operation of the same. "From that station the Chancellor Carlos city in the company of the accused Wuilliam Saud, Pedro Lorenzo Perez (sic) and Standard Devia Márquez (sic) instigated the people to go out and perform acts against the law."
Those investigations were led by representatives of the Office 11, Puerto Ordaz, by Franklin Rojas and his assistant Robert Mujica, who requested the arrest warrants the court room with Full Competence Control in Bolivar, Omar Duque.
The views expressed in the Correo del Caroni, by the then Minister of Mines and Basic Industries, Mibam, Victor Alvarez, was that sanctions would be aggressive in "you have to take any decision so that things go well, zero relax" .
"All decisions and actions should follow the national interest, not the interests of any group or sector specific, and the solution must be harmonized to make rational use of mineral resources," he said. "The Mission Piar must be an intermediary between the miners, municipal, regional government and national government." The owner of Mibam said emphatically that "this conflict behind mine is political and economic interests of people whose only purpose to take the issue to reach the National Assembly through a post as deputy." He added that economic losses for the Venezuelan State are not quantifiable with this bar. The trunk road No. 10 is a road from Venezuela to the Republic of Brazil, and is strategically important because through it there is commercial traffic between the two countries and at the same time, citizens exercise their right to free transit.
In early 2010, was put into effect a preliminary hearing in which the fifth judge Yoselin Rattia control, reviewed the existence of sufficient evidence to try again to former mayor Sifontes, Chancellor Carlos Marcelino Ferrer, who on 1 December 2009 and was tried and convicted of corruption and others, and would be charged again for abuse of power, embezzlement specific own corruption, fraud, embezzlement, fraudulent, payment for services not performed and budget overdrafts. These crimes are allegedly committed during his tenure as mayor between 1996 and 2004.