Hugo Chavez & Officials Caught in Huge Drug Money Scandal!

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's justice minister on Monday accused a former Supreme Court magistrate of receiving money from drug traffickers.
Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami made the accusation against ex-Magistrate Eladio Aponte, who charged in a television interview shown last week that government and military officials have manipulated court cases.
Venezuelan authorities on Friday put out an international request for Aponte's capture.
"He fled because he was dismissed in order to be brought before justice," El Aissami said at a news conference.
Aponte was dismissed from his post by Venezuela's National Assembly on March 20 over accusations that he had ties to drug suspect Walid Makled. Aponte was accused of providing Makled, who is now jailed in Venezuela, with an official identification card. He has said he thought Makled was a reputable businessman.
Aponte later traveled to Costa Rica, where officials in the Central American country said he was then flown to the United States last week aboard a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration plane.
El Aissami criticized the DEA's handling of the affair and said Venezuelan officials plan to present evidence that Aponte received money from drug trafficking.
In his television interview, Aponte denied receiving drug money but acknowledged that he had participated in manipulating cases at what he said was the request of government and military officials.
The ex-judge's charges have become fodder for political debate in Venezuela as opposition politicians call for an investigation into his claims.
President Hugo Chavez referred to Aponte's accusations for the first time Monday, calling him a "criminal" in a phone call from Havana aired live on television.
El Aissami denied accusations by Aponte that some military officials, including the chief of the national anti-drug office, have ties to drug traffickers. The justice minister said Aponte had made false claims because Gen. Nestor Reverol, the head of the anti-drug office, "had been following his steps."
Aponte didn't provide evidence to back his claims during the interview.
Venezuelan officials believe the DEA knew about Aponte's links for several years but withheld that information from the country's authorities, El Aissami said. He accused the DEA of harboring a fugitive in the United States.
DEA officials in Washington have declined to comment about Aponte.

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[rccl36812]

Chavez's TOP Ofiificials , as you say....dont need "Drug money" when they can reach into the country's OIL MONEY ! ! ! it's all at their disposal....why this shit ....really, you guys think we are all idiots ? ? ? /

[fireballinsky1966]

every government group around the planet is fuckin corrupt they all piss in the same pot

[Jason Harvey]

Misinfowars is at it again. Alex "Rothschild" Jones. Lie lie lie.

[guitarcenter999]

"Just because western is totally corrupt doesn't mean the alternatives on the left are any better." So. Fucking. True. And it is sadly something many people's blind ideologies don't let them see. People who believe in these false revolutions that never got anywhere and are only mere memories in the present day. I can't believe these people think it is logical to say something like: "I am completely against the corporate dictatorship of the U.S. but I completely support Ghaddafis dictatorship!"

[Rober tuco]

Viva Latinoamérica!!!! Viva la verdadera libertad!!!

[Rober tuco]

Your economy is decreasing and the incredible debts that U.S. have will be pay soon to the chinesse people. All your arrogancy and proud bring destruction to others countries, and we were see the day when your bad people pay for every bad things made us.

You never know the truth, because you wasn't open your eyes to know the truth; and your media gives to you a blindness.

I hope you can repent of all your arrogancy and proud, and restores all the damage you caused. You have time

[Someideasandstuff]

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AHHH, AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

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VIVA HUGO, VIVA VENEZUELA

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VIVA CHAVEZ

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[democratichypocrit]

LOL. Chavez. What a chump

[democratichypocrit]

And curroption will always be the same too. I cant wait to him die to truly see justice prevail.

As Charles Darwin once said "Survival of the fittest". Cmon Chavez, die so the people of Venezuela can live

[rccl36812]

chavez....we love you....Christ was killed by his nown people....and later discovered he was the true son of GOD. The hatred is the same.