The government checks whether a Venezuelan close to Hezbollah had links with Argentina – 27/02/2019

The announcement last week that a former espionage chief in Venezuela gave up his allegiance to President Chavismo and was sidelined by now supporting the opposition. , also alerted the intelligence and security services in Argentina.

It turns out that General Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, a former Venezuelan intelligence and counterintelligence officer, then a deputy proved with his confessions, notably in the American newspaper The New York Times, that he could to have valuable information on the relations between Caracas and Buenos Aires under the government of Hugo Chávez and the Kirchner couple. Not only with regard to the opaque companies created at that time, but also with regard to the flirtors between Iran and the American and Israeli intelligence services, which arise not only from the signing of the protocol of Cristina's agreement. 2013 to give a legal "solution" to the case of the terrorist attack against the AMIA, which killed 85 people in 1994.

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In his appearance today, Carvajal mentions the same figures that appeared in the days following the lifelong appearance of Prosecutor Alberto Nisman on 18 January 2015. According to a high source Clarin This reactivated the search systems between the Ministry of Security, the Financial Information Unit – which investigates accounts that could be on its behalf or other people – and the head of 39, Argentine company of Caracas, Eduardo Porretti, who, despite the tensions of macrismo with Caracas, still maintains good relations with the characters of Chavismo.

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"It is necessary to have consistent information to establish possible links between the Lebanese citizen nationalized Ghazi Nasr Al Din and our country," said an internal statement that is circulating again between the embbady of Japan. Argentina in Venezuela and security agents in Buenos Aires. "The cause is among those wanted by the FBI and reportedly wanted to be captured internationally since 2015 for money laundering and terrorist financing (Hezbollah), in turn would be tied to Tareck el Aissami," the powerful former Vice President of Nicolás Maduro, today Minister of Industries and Production.

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Aissami like Al Din are mentioned in this noisy article of the Brazilian magazine Veja, March 2015, entitled "The connection of Tehran – Caracas – Buenos Aires". In this interview, three former members of the Chávez government were convinced by the Brazilian magazine that Iran would have sent money to Argentina for the election campaign of Cristina Fernández in exchange for nuclear secrets and l & # 39; Impunity in the AMIA case, using Venezuela as an intermediary

The years pbaded and the same characters appear in the testimony that Carvajal gave to the Times. The announcement of his escape from the regime was notorious in the media last week, in the context of the prevailing expectation on the entry of humanitarian aid to Venezuela, repressed by the diet. "Here is one more soldier for the causes of freedom and democracy, useful for the restoration of the constitutional order allowing us to call free elections," said the repentant in a video released last week.

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As you can read in the Times' long note published Thursday and revealing the new confessions of Carvajal, this now dissident figure of the regime is in principle a valuable source of information for the FBI and the CIA accusing the regime of Chavez to participate in these elections. In recent days, a network related to drug trafficking and penetration in Latin America Hezbollah group, whose main source of funding is Iran.

In his remarks – following the article – Carvajal says that Néstor Reverol, Minister of the Interior of Nicolás Maduro, and the Minister of Industry and Production, Tareck El Aissami, former vice-president, are the two Venezuelan regime figures related to drug trafficking. and corruption.

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It is in this train that he warns that El Aissami has sought alliances with the Lebanese Shia militia, listed on the list of terrorist groups in the United States, Israel and the European Union. Carvajal mentions a meeting between El Aissami and a "Hezbollah operative", according to which there was even a plan for the "Lebanese militiamen to go to Venezuela to work with the FARC fighters" (and the Colombian guerrillas) and that 39 they are not identified this operator identifies well Ghazi Nasr al Din, who worked as commercial director of Venezuela in Damascus. And in 2008, according to the New York Times, the US Treasury Department sanctioned him for "Hezbollah sympathy" and for "facilitating the movement of Hezbollah members to Venezuela." The FBI is looking for him too.

In Buenos Aires, the authorities determined that "he would never have entered our country by authorized steps using his name, nor has he found a registry having developed activities in that country. ". Al Din figures as born in Lebanon.

The Argentine authorities have however indicated that "it has been detected that his brother, Abdallah Atef Nbadereddine", was holding the position of president of a large Arab entity present in Argentina, Venezuela, and which records the movements migration to and from Argentina between 1999 and 1999. 2009. Nbadereddine, which is not calculated in data obtained by Clarín for a crime of the moment, records at least thirteen entries and / or exits from this country with Venezuelan pbadports. The last in 2009.