By: AFP
Feb 06th, 18.- Four Venezuelan journalists fled from the country after having been sued by a Colombian entrepreneur linked to charges by corruption, reported this Monday the media they work for.
The journalists are the editors Alfredo Meza, Ewald Scharfenberg y Joseph Poliszuk, and the writer Roberto Deniz, from the Website armando.info, specialized in journalistic research.
In preservation of their freedoms, they left the country in search for protection, a press release states, not specifying the destination of the journalists.
The four journalists were denounced by the entrepreneur Alex Saab, who accuses them for aggravated difamation and injury, punished with a sentence between one and six years of imprisonment.
Two reports of the Website published in year 2017 relate Saab with the company Group Grand Limited and the sale of subsidized food items to the Venezuelan Government for the Local Committees of Supply and Production (CLAP, in its Spanish accronym), to the poorest communities.
According to the research, the company received from the Venezuelan Government subsidized dollars for the import of food from Mexico, but overpriced.
The Ecuador General Comptrollership "investigated and opened trials against the entrepreneur for the activities of the company Fondo Global de Construcción. He obtained millionary contracts from the Venezuelan government for the construction and handing out of prefabricated houses", the journalists affirmed.
"There were threats and the display of the personal information of the four journalists of the Website armando.info from an anonimous account on the social network. This incident was denounced and condemned in its time", the Website recalled.
Read the article in Spanish, here: https://www.aporrea.org/contraloria/n320691.html
English Version: María Eugenia Acero Colomine @andesenfrungen
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