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Claudia Díaz will be extradited to the United States.
A court in Spain has given the green light for the extradition to the United States of Claudia Patricia Díaz Guillén, who was the nurse of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez, in addition to this she was treasurer of the Venezuelan government.
Where did Claudia Díaz come from?
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She was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira state, in 1973, after her childhood and reaching youth, she entered the military academy of the National Guard, enrolled in the school for nurses of the armed forces, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in nursing.
In 2002, she was assigned to the Citizen Service Office of the Miraflores Palace, at the time Hugo Chávez ruled.
After meeting the late president, she was taken to work in the National Treasury Office, as a personal assistant to the main boss, and at the same time she began as a private nurse for Hugo Chávez, that is, she began to occupy two high-level positions.
At what point did Claudia Díaz manage the National Treasury of Venezuela?
It is not until 2011 that by direct order of Hugo Chávez, her nurse, she goes from being an assistant to becoming the Treasurer of the Nation.
Unfortunately for Claudia Díaz, her happiness only lasted 2 years, because, in April 2013, she was removed from office by the current president, Nicolás Maduro.
It is important to mention that after this, in 2015 the Panama papers were published, in which Claudia Días was reviewed, which led to an investigation by the Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
At the end of that investigation, she was found to be creating a shell company that she established with her husband, a company they used to cover up all the ill-gotten wealth that the couple had accumulated.
Finally, in December 2020, they are placed under arrest by the Spanish justice, who after a judicial process at the time, maintained the intention of extraditing Claudia Díaz to Venezuela; but later he retracted, since the defense alleged that his rights would be violated.
Finally, last Friday, October 15 of this year, the Spanish Justice announced that it authorized the extradition of Claudia Díaz, to the United States, where she is requested for crimes related to money laundering and illicit enrichment.
What is Claudia Díaz being accused of?
Initially, it is claimed by the United States for the alleged commission of crimes of "criminal association to commit money laundering and laundering of monetary instruments."
She is accused, in addition to being involved with the Venezuelan businessman Raúl Gorrín, owner of Globovisión, in a corrupt ploy in relation to foreign currency exchange.
In other words, the former treasurer received payments in exchange for granting privileges with dollar quotas at a preferential rate that operated in the country between 2003 and 2014.
Claudia Díaz and Adrián José Velázquez, who was Hugo Chávez's escort, appear as one of the beneficiaries of tax havens in journalistic investigations known as the Pandora Papers.
He is accused of an alleged purchase with a shell company based in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines of 250 gold bars, valued at more than 9.5 million dollars.
Finally, with this other extradition, the regime that is going on a series of failures is weakened again, people with a lot of information that can put the ruling party in trouble.
