Accused of the kidnapping and murder of a merchant in Iquique, he was an official of the National Police of Venezuela

The case of the 67-year-old merchant who was kidnapped and murdered in the city of Iquique added a surprising precedent, since one of the accused belonged to the Bolivarian National Police of Venezuela.
According to the information provided by Radio Bío Bío, it is a 24-year-old man who was in the ranks of the institution until very recently and does not register -for the moment- a background in his country of origin.
According to the regional prosecutor of Tarapacá, Raúl Arancibia, the accused – who was the first detainee in the case – had a collaboration “with the kidnappers in the concealment of the victim’s body, leaving it in a barren place where it was found by the police.”
There are three detainees in this case, where the other two people – a man and a woman – are also of Venezuelan nationality. They are accused of being the material actors of the kidnapping and murder of the victim.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office said that the woman had an employment relationship with the murdered person.
Chronicle of kidnapping and subsequent homicide
According to the Prosecutor’s Office of Tarapacá, the 67-year-old merchant was kidnapped in the market of Iquique – a place he frequented – on January 6. They put him on top of a car and transferred him to a house where he was photographed to ask the family for a ransom.
The demand they asked the victim’s family was the payment of 150 million after crossing the border through Colchane.
When they did not achieve the sum, the detainees murdered the man with blows and sharp weapons, and then abandoned his body on a hill between Iquique and Alto Hospicio.

Original source in Spanish