Statements made by the Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab, one day after the final result of the Supreme Court where it was ratified that Nicolas Maduro is the president of Venezuela for the term 2025-2031. teleSUR
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00:00Welcome to Tell Us Your English.
00:06We go live to Caracas to see statements offered by General Attorney Tarek William Sadler.
00:11Let's see.
00:12We have been advancing in first place.
00:18I want to read.
00:22I want to welcome the final judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice, which stated the
00:32final judgment of the contentious appeal filed by citizen Nicolás Moros on July 31st, 2024,
00:46which is very important, and through which he also cites a right.
00:55So we have precedence in the Western Hemisphere, which we will cite later, and President Nicolás
01:06Maduro requested the Supreme Court of Justice to open an investigation, an auditing process
01:15of the electoral process of the tally sheets on July 28 elections.
01:23So in an act, an opposition far-right sector, which have been escalating the violent actions
01:39against the Venezuelan people, the Venezuelan, the Venezuela, despite the aforesaid explained
01:49and cited, the far-right opposition didn't want to recognize those, the final judgment
02:01of the Supreme Court of Justice.
02:03So instead, going through the institutional routes, the opposition called to violence.
02:27So we denounced, and we have been talking about this with diplomatic corps, and they
02:36used organized criminal groups, common criminals, who were nearby the parallel organization
02:51to them, including the bad-called commanditos, to achieve something that they didn't achieve
03:05by the electoral process.
03:07So it is important to highlight that in our condition, in our function as prosecutor's
03:14office, we participated in the three hearings summoned by the electoral chamber on 7th of
03:23August, in which the presidential candidates appeared except for one, Edmundo González
03:33Urrutia, who was absent, disregarding the summons of the Supreme Court of Justice, and
03:49demonstrating his disrespect of the Venezuelan state and institutions represented by the
03:59republic.
04:01I want to highlight the historical final judgment through the electoral chamber, which have
04:09recent precedents in the world.
04:12Particularly, I want to cite those of the Western Hemisphere, that is, those are the
04:17cases of the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.
04:20In the case of the U.S., let's recall that in 2000, the Supreme Court of Justice settled
04:28the electoral controversial process in which the presidency of the country was disputed
04:40between Bush and another candidate.
04:43And so in Brazil, they were on an electoral controversy as well, in which the far-right
04:53opposition filed an appeal before the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the one that is
05:06in charge of the affairs.
05:09And so there, he recognized and respected the court.
05:20And Richard Bolsonaro did it, being a far-right man who has been in favor of fascism.
05:50And so in the case of the United States, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the
05:57Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court
06:04of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice
06:11of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil,
06:18the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme
06:24Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of
06:29Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of
06:33Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the
06:38Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court
06:43of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice of Brazil, the Supreme Court of Justice
06:47of Brazil, the Supreme Court
07:03the suppression of functions, installation of the not compliance with the laws, cyber
07:09cyber crimes, criminal association, and conspiracy.
07:17So those fake documents uploaded on the website ResultadosPresidenciales.com, likewise, the
07:31massive cyber attack denounced against the national electoral system, which were anti-judicial
07:41behaviors and institutional crimes against the judicial order.
07:53And so that's the side about the final judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice, and the investigation
08:02that we are carrying out, it is anticipated by the prosecutor's office, and supported
08:12by other institutions.
08:18We are just verifying the people and the websites used to generate uncertainty and unrest on
08:31the population.
08:32And so it is evident the criminal behavior of Gonzalez-Rutia by not attending, appearing
08:42before the Supreme Court of Justice, which the court declared that this citizen did not
08:53comply with the summons, and so he has to be sanctioned as the articles of the Constitution
09:06of the Penal Code stipulated.
09:10So let's see how this alleged candidate, I want to make a reflection, I want to more
09:17as this candidate submitted to the electoral process, he was submitted to these elections,
09:35he made a campaign in terms of ghosting terms, as he was ordered by this Maria Corina Machado,
09:48and so there were the parties that supported him, that by the way they appeared before
10:00the Supreme Court of Justice, and so they said that they didn't have any tally sheets,
10:07so you said that they were fraud, but when the Supreme Court of Justice summoned you,
10:17and that is recorded, and it could be disseminated later, the representatives of the parties
10:28supporting Edmundo Gonzalez-Rutia said they didn't have the tally sheets, so what they
10:35had were some forged documents uploaded on a website.
10:41So I want to see the lack of dignity of this citizen, I want you to see this post by Edmundo
10:57Gonzalez, sovereignty lies in the people, and so he said he served the functions of
11:08the Supreme Court of Justice, of the National Electoral Council, who is this person to say
11:15that?
11:17Let's not forget that the unclassified documents in power of the whole world reveals that Edmundo
11:28Gonzalez-Rutia and Leopoldo Castillo were responsible amid the insurgents' struggle
11:39in El Salvador of the murder of seven religious persons, and so he then was a secretary of
11:53Castillo, at the moment these crimes were perpetrated, in which they were mentioned
12:00in the serial murder of these religious persons, so he's not the person who seems he is, but
12:11he was used, obviously, and he allowed him to be used in this situation that was escalated,
12:22but when he was summoned, he didn't show up, so I am sure that for something which
12:30is very evident for us, he is a very coward person, he is afraid of justice, so it was
12:44positive correct that you appeared on the electoral process, so you are validating the
12:51electoral power, you are trusting the electoral power, so why did you participate in the electoral
12:59power? So it cannot be that the electoral power is good for being submitted to the elections,
13:08and for making your electoral campaign, that's your problem, but it couldn't be good, but then
13:17the electoral power is bad when it declares the results grounded in the system, in the electoral
13:27system which was affected, the counting of the electoral data, which fortunately as a Venezuelan
13:37state, we could stop the massive cyber attack, that even a hacker took responsibility of this
13:48publicly, and you see that when we said it before the diplomatic council ministry, even a hacker,
14:03a well-known hacker, took responsibility of the attack to the electoral system, and this plan
14:11brought about the non-violence in which all were accountable of the 27 deaths of the 190 injured,
14:23the briefing we have made had been advancing, we have been updating it, and any of those regrettable
14:33deaths, I have said it many times, I am going to repeat it, it is attributable, there is no single
14:43claim, allegation, in any prosecutor's office or nationwide, or even in our office, attributable
14:57to security forces of the state, to the forces of the state, and so that's where they are planned,
15:07to fortunately, we managed to stop those isolated riots on a day and a half, between 6 p.m. to 7
15:22and 10 p.m., it was all the criminal actions that they committed, and they continued on July 30,
15:33in those two days, 100% of those deaths are in charge of these criminal groups that were made up
15:49of the commanditos led by the far-right opposition. I want to announce that in the coming hours,
15:57citizen Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia has been summoned by this prosecutor's office on the
16:06grounds of this ongoing investigation, for him to declare about his authorship of this website,
16:22that has usurped the function of the electoral power, of the Venezuelan electoral power, he will
16:32have to respond, he will have to appear, the prosecutor's office has the authority to summon
16:46the involved to advance the investigation, so in that regard, you probably will know that such
16:56summons, and we hope that this citizen, who hasn't been showing up, he has been showing up on X,
17:13and we don't know if he is posting or not, but we are certain that he could appear, he has to
17:26appear to his summons for him to talk consequently about his accountability in the before July 28th
17:41and after July 28th, for his disregard of the legitimate authorities, and I conclude that if
17:54the National Electoral Council and the Venezuelan state was good for participating in elections,
18:02being submitted as a candidate, backed up by some parties, so that same state with those
18:11democratic institutions have to be good for issuing the final results regarding the elections
18:23or justice in due case, so Venezuela must be respected and those who have deemed about
18:40Venezuela's elections are violating the human rights, and so Venezuela has been an example
18:48for non-intervention and respecting the self-determination of the people, so thank you very much.
18:55We will listen to the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, who addressed
19:03the investigation process into the criminal acts performed by the so-called Comanditos,
19:09financed by the far-right. In this context, he underscored the significance of the final
19:14judgment issued by the Venezuelan top court on Thursday that validated the results of the CNE,
19:20giving the presidency and the electoral win to Nicolás Maduro, and he also spoke about
19:26the precedence on Western countries such as Mexico, the US and Brazil regarding similar
19:33events. He also spoke to the responsibility that lies in far-right sectors regarding the
19:39acts of violence that followed on the July 28th elections as part of the stabilization attempts
19:44that the prosecutor's office continues to investigate. We will have more information
19:49on upcoming news, please stay tuned with Tell Us Your English.