Bolivarian National Police arrested three officials to extort two foreign tourists who were carrying a drone

Agents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) of Venezuela arrested in the last hours three officials of this security body accused of extorting two foreign tourists, authorities reported Wednesday.

After an investigation ordered by the Interior and Justice portfolio following a complaint on social networks, the police agency identified the officials, who are already «detained» and were expelled from the UNB, said the head of this ministry, Diosdado Cabello .

«I have ordered the chief partner of the Police (…) to expel them (…) with half a turn, half a turn is that everyone else turns their backs on them and they have to leave for having dishonored the Bolivarian National Police» Said the minister during his weekly television program broadcast on the state channel VTV.

In the Instagram social network, the police body shared a video that shows the three detained officials, who were dismissed and will be presented to the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) so that, later, each one is “judged by their actions, according to their actions, according to their actions, according to their actions, according to It is established by the Police Law and the Constitution ».

The PNB, which expressed its repudiation of «any act and behavior that Mancille to this worthy institution,» said the detainees extorted the two tourists asking for money.

According to local media, a French tourist and a Mexican denounced that they were extorted for having a drone, when they were directed from the Lara state to the Llanera region of Barinas, in the west of the Caribbean country.

EFE