Luisa Ortega Díaz

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Luisa Ortega Díaz (2017)

Luisa Marvelia Ortega Díaz (born January 11, 1958 in Valle de la Pascua ) is a Venezuelan lawyer . She was Attorney General from 2007 to 2017 .

Career

Ortega Díaz studied law at the Universidad de Carabobo and specialized in criminal law at the Universidad Santa María and at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in procedural law. In 2002 she joined the Caracas Metropolitan Area Prosecutor's Office. She then gained nationwide jurisdiction and rose to the position of Attorney General in 2007 as the successor to Isaías Rodríguez.

Among other things, she also conducted investigations into the bribes of the construction company Odebrecht , which according to the company in Venezuela would amount to around 100 million. From August 23, 2017, she was in Brazil to also speak about Odebrecht bribes in Venezuela at a summit of prosecutors from the Mercosur states.

Luisa Ortega Díaz was a member of the Venezuelan National Human Rights Council while fleeing the regime until she left the country.

Resisting the unconstitutional acts of the Maduro government

In spring 2017 she became known worldwide when she - as an avowed Chavist - described the method of appointing the judges of the Supreme Court ( Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela ) as illegal. She called the elimination of parliament and other rulings by the Supreme Court unconstitutional. In June 2017, she criticized the regime's intention to convene a “constituent assembly” that could disempower parliament, and in late July called on citizens to protests against the election of such an assembly. From August 2017, Díaz began investigating the government for election fraud in the election of this assembly.

Since spring 2017, various politicians close to the government have expressed sharp criticism of Ortega in the state media, which can only be removed by parliament. The Supreme Court issued an exit ban on Ortega in early July 2017 and froze her bank accounts. On August 5, 2017, Ortega, although her term of office was not due to end until 2021, was removed from office at the request of the Supreme Court by the unconstitutional Constituent Assembly. The constitutionally elected parliament voted unanimously against this removal.

Her successor as Attorney General, Tarek William Saab , called Luisa Ortega the "intellectual author" of 123 dead who had called for the riots . Her husband, Germán Ferrer, who is also a dissident MP for the Socialist Party , has been brought on account of an alleged blackmail network. Her house was searched by the secret service.

On August 18, 2017, Luisa Ortega fled to Colombia with her husband Germán Ferrer and two other companions (one of Ortega's employees and the former anti-corruption lawyer Arturo Vilar Esteves ) . They took a speedboat from the Paraguaná peninsula to Aruba, 27 kilometers away, and then flew from Aruba airport on a Colombian charter plane to Bogotá airport , where they were received by the local migration authorities and applied for political asylum . Brazil also offered Ortega political asylum.

She said in October 2017 that she had sufficient evidence of killings and human rights violations that could bring President Maduro to the international criminal court . She has no political ambitions, she just wants to restore justice and the separation of powers in her country. Her agency would have collected over a thousand pieces of evidence of human rights abuses by Maduro and three generals, the generals being the Defense Minister, the Interior Minister and the Director of the Political Police. There was also talk of extrajudicial executions . Amnesty International also complained about this in the context of what the government allegedly called "the fight against crime".

Ortega called the fact that Maduro did not take the oath of office for his controversial second term in January 2019 in front of parliament, but in front of the loyal Supreme Court, "unconstitutional".

Web links

Commons : Luisa Ortega Díaz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawyer Luisa Ortega Diaz comes to Brazil from Colombia , El Nacional, 23 August 2017
  2. ↑ Cracks in the Maduro warehouse , tagesschau.de, June 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ Controversial judgments of the Venezuelan Supreme Court are to be revised , swissinfo, April 1, 2017.
  4. ^ The thorn in the flesh of the Venezuelan regime , SRF, June 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ NZZ , July 28, 2017, page 12
  6. ^ Public prosecutor's office is investigating election fraud against its own government , NZZ, August 3, 2017
  7. ↑ Die uncomfortable Chavista , NZZ, June 12, 2017.
  8. ↑ Venezuela takes action against the public prosecutor , NZZ, June 29, 2017.
  9. ↑ Venezuela: Prosecutor General Dismissed. (No longer available online.) In: heute.de. August 5, 2017, archived from the original on August 5, 2017 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heute.de
  10. ↑ Venezuela's parliament votes against the removal of the attorney general , August 8, 2017
  11. ↑ Luisa Ortega flees to Colombia from Maduro's agitation. In: NZZ . August 20, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Secret service takes action against family of Maduro opponent. In: The Standard. August 17, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  13. ^ Prosecutor Ortega flees from Maduro. In: FAZ.net. August 19, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  14. ↑ La increíble fuga de la exfiscal Luisa Ortega a Colombia. In: Semana.com. August 18, 2017, Retrieved August 19, 2017 (Spanish).
  15. ↑ The Brazilian Foreign Minister welcomed Ortega Diaz and offered her political asylum , El Nacional, 23 August 2017
  16. ↑ Venezuela: Former Attorney General Luisa Ortega wants to see Maduro in court , DW, October 14, 2017
  17. ↑ Exiliada en Colombia, exfiscal Ortega continúa su lucha contra Maduro , El Tiempo, May 18, 2018
  18. ↑ Amnesty International indicts Venezuela for more than 8,200 extrajudicial executions between 2015 and 2017 , abc, September 21, 2018; AI report Venezuela: Autoridades deben parar de criminalizar y matar a los jóvenes en situación de pobreza from September 20, 2018
  19. ↑ Luisa Ortega: "El Ejército debe restablecer la democracia" , Deutsche Welle (Spanish), January 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ortega Díaz, Luisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortega Díaz, Luisa Marvelia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Valle de la Pascua