Want to hear about corruption?
Eligio Cedeño, a banker in Venezuela has an affair with the daughter of the Venezuelan president, then dumps her. A little while later, charges are brought up against him.
He goes and hands himself in, saying he has nothing to hide. He then spends “34 months in jail, on charges that were never heard in court, for authorities kept delaying the trial, which had not even started.”
Then, in light of his long, and illegal, imprisonment, Judge María Lourdes Afiuni freed Cedeño; until trial starts, while retaining his passport and asking he reports himself to authorities every 15 days.
Venezuelan president gets pissed, announces on his TV show for the arrest of the Judge, saying she’s orchestrated his escape; then he asks that the Judge is sentenced to 30 years in jail (this is the same amount of time given to people charged with homicide).
She has now been arrested along with some other people (some of whom have absolutely nothing to do with the case), they want to put her in the same jail as with people she’s sentenced. A literal death sentence.
Sad part: the judge is my cousin. :(
