At a bed and breakfast in Casalvieri, a mini-hotel located in a small and quiet town in central Italy, they captured a man with a lot of information about the business of the powerful bishops of the Nicolas Maduro government.
His arrest has worried politicians, soldiers, pilots and well-known singers who appear at his side and have old deals with Colombian mafiosi.
Many of them bet that the DEA would completely forget about the cabo, identified as Carlos Orenz Asocar, who was close to Hugo Chavez and posed as a prosperous lumber dealer. He was able to hold high positions in the Ministry of Finance and Customs at the Maiquetía International Airport.
A capo that scares Diosdado Cabello
However, for the United States, it is clear that he is a drug trafficker who concluded deals with powerful leaders and military commanders to send tons of cocoa to Central and North America from 2006 to 2021.
For this reason, they asked Italy to extradite him, and since July he has been in New York.
Initially, he declared bankruptcy and even asked for a public defender. But after a short stint in prison, a deal is expected to yield relevant information about the links of military generals and senior Maduro officials to drug trafficking.
Source of ‘Doornapool’
According to investigators, Carlos Orenz Asocar is the right-hand man of Pedro Luis Martín Olivares, the former head of the Economic Intelligence Department of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEPIN). Now the US has offered to give him a reward of 10 million dollars.
In the state of Abure, which borders Colombia, Orens is known by the alias Doornapool, and in DEA files he appears as “Fat Orens,” a gangster with tentacles in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Colombia.
Orens is charged with conspiracy to manufacture, manufacture, distribute and possess a prohibited substance (cocaine); Violating maritime anti-narcotics laws by moving narcotics using ships and cargo ships and possessing high caliber weapons, machine guns and destructive devices to protect his criminal drug enterprise.
Capo can show powerful connections with the state
The information against him is so damning that Orense is expected to reveal connections between Dióstado Cabello and other powerful members of the Venezuelan regime.
One of the clues was Martin Olivares, who headed the defunct Office of the Police Investigative Services (TCIP), today Sepin. He was then under the command of General Hugo ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal, who was imprisoned in Spain.
According to federal investigations, Martin Olivarez was partnered with drug lord Roberto Mendez Hurtado, a former member of the force known as ‘Carolo’. General Colombian.
Carollo has been pursued by the DEA since 2004
Time It was established that ‘Carolo’ had been pursued by the DEA since 2004. According to prosecutors, his criminal organization paid American pilots to fly drugs from Apure to the shores of the British Virgin Islands and elsewhere.
Caught and extradited to the US in 2011, Carollo became one of the key witnesses against a drug trafficking network operating out of Venezuela. A network that includes members of the government, leaders of the ELN and the FARC.
Although he is already free, his statements lead to the cooperation of ‘Gordo Orense’.
Killed in Medellin
A subject called Frank is also investigated. Orens is known to have given him several properties in Maturin (Venezuela). ‘Frank’ was killed in Medellin in 2017.
The other clue to follow relates to the connections between Martín Olivares and Tachira’s governor Freddy Bernal. Currently researchers They are tracking him for facilitating the smuggling of minerals and drugs across Colombia’s border.
The indictment against Orense is pending before New York federal judge Valerie Figueredo.
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