New attack by Chavismo on the newspaper El Nacional: the editor-in-chief arrested

The Venezuelan dictatorship has once again accused the prestigious newspaper the national team, favorite target of the regime which has imposed strong censorship of the non-aligned press. This time it was in reaction to aa investigation published by the newspaper on corruption cases linked to Chavista leader Nicolas Maduro.

The journalist and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, José Gregorio Meza, was escorted by a commission of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigative Corps (Cicpc) to the Public Prosecutor be questioneddenounced the paper on its website.

Four other journalists were also present, including the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Miguel Henrique Otero, currently in exile in Spain. cited by the prosecutor.

“This siege on El Nacional journalists is due to a series of investigations published during the month of January which mention, among other characters, the Morón Hernández brothers, alleged figurehead for Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerrasanctioned on July 23, 2020 by the United States Department of the Treasury,” the newspaper indicates on its website.

He explained that the brothers Santiago José and Ricardo José Morón Hernández are designated by the Foreign Assets Control Office as “responsible for overseeing the financial mechanism of the illicit gold scheme directed by Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, son of the president”.

Santiago Moron Hernández is identified as the principal assistant of the operation, while Ricardo is introduced as the head of high finance operations and commodity transfers.

“The information of both is scarce, not to say that it does not exist. And it is that their trace on the web has been erased, along with that of their closest relatives and friends,” indicated the publication.

Research The national team points out that in 2019 a series of fake profiles with the surnames Morón Hernández were created to try to whiten the image of the brothers, which were replicated by a series of invented pages hosted on the same hosting with the intention of placing these cyber dolls in the first search results on Google, Bing and other platforms.

“By placing content on false namesakes or cyber straw dolls, overlaps with real information on the Morón Hernández brothers, as well as notes relating to the sanctions applied to them by the United States. The harder they are to find, the more certain they are that they become ghosts and their operations cannot be investigated,” he says.

The investigation revealed part of the picture that led the Morón Hernández family, known for leading the company Constructora Cresmo CA, to the extraction and sale of gold to the Central Bank of Venezuela, together with another well-known figure of the regime, Alex Saab , also point man of the Chavista leader and currently detained in the United States

Saab and the Moróns took over the business in 2018 and from the offices they shared in the Galipán building, in Chacao, they closed operations to export the goldpayment in euros and, sometimes, the exchange of food and tank trucks, among other goods.

In addition to the brothers Morón Hernández and Alex Nain Saab Morán, Mario Enrique Bonilla Vallera and Raúl Eduardo Saavedra Leterni, leading men of Yoswal Alexander and Yosser Daniel Gavidia Flores, also had assignments. children from the first marriage of Cilia Flores, wife of Maduro. add search.

Clarin writes