Paris (EFE) after dismissing his last appeal.
The court based in Strasbourg has rejected on Thursday all the arguments with which the head of Venezuelan counterintelligence during the presidency of Hugo Chávez tried to paralyze his delivery to the United States, as he has been doing for years.
There, Justice claims him for crimes equivalent in Spain to belonging to a criminal organization or belonging to or collaboration with a terrorist organization and drug trafficking.
The lawsuit before the Strasbourg court kept the delivery paralyzed and, once it has been dismissed, now the National Court will request the translation of the resolution and then order Interpol to execute the extradition, according to legal sources informed EFE.
Carvajal asked to stop the delivery
Carvajal asked to stop the delivery considering that in the United States he runs the risk of being sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of one day obtaining a conditional release.
However, the European Court of Human Rights “is convinced” that he will be tried in “a judicial system that respects the preeminence of law and the principles of a fair trial in which he will have full opportunity to organize his defense with a lawyer”.
Carvajal fled Venezuela in 2019
Hugo Armando Carvajal, who fled Venezuela with a false passport in 2019, has been in pretrial detention for more than two years due to the patent risk of flight, since his whereabouts were unknown for almost two years, between 2019 and 2021.
His track was lost when the third criminal section of the National Court refused to hand him over to the United States. The full magistrates of the Criminal Chamber revoked that decision shortly after, although, by then, the court could no longer locate him until in September 2021 he was arrested in Madrid, on a different floor from where his family is registered. couple and their five children.
Since he was arrested, Carvajal has tried to prevent his surrender by all means, unsuccessfully requested asylum in Spain -something that has still been appealed- and challenged all the decisions that the judges were handing down against him until reaching the ECtHR, which today has ruled against him.
He even offered to testify before a judge of the National Court about an alleged illegal financing of Podemos -whose investigation is already archived-, a testimony that the National Court asked to assess with “the prevention of pursuing a spurious purpose, preventing it from being materialize the extradition already resolved judicially and approved by the Government of Spain”.