Maduro issues arrest warrant for Argentine President Javier Milei

The Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office is processing the request for an arrest warrant against the president of Argentina, Javier Milei. The Maduro regime opened “an investigation” for the purported “theft” of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane that was held in Buenos Aires since June 2022 and later shipped to the United States in February.

The warrant was reported this Wednesday by the regime's attorney general, Tarek William Saab.

The aircraft that supposedly unleashed the problem was detained in Ezeiza during the time that former President Alberto Fernández was in charge of the South American country.

The Maduro prosecutor also said this Wednesday that “the assignment of two prosecutors specialized in the matter … are processing the arrest warrant” against the Argentine Secretary General Karina Milei, and Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich.

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"This, in the next few hours, will have its consequences in a competent court here in Venezuela with the respective arrest warrants in the respective competent agencies, because this cannot go unpunished," said Saab, whose statements were broadcast by Venezuelan Television (VTV) state channel.

The Venezuelan warrant charges the Argentine officials with crimes of “aggravated robbery, money laundering, illegitimate deprivation of liberty, simulation of a punishable act, interference illegality, disablement of aircraft and association to commit a crime.”

The Chavista regime’s announcement occurred one day after the Milei government supported an arrest request against Maduro.

The Argentine Foreign Ministry also urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to request an arrest warrant against “other leaders of the regime” given “the worsening of the situation” after the presidential elections in the Caribbean country on July 28.