Italy confirms the release in Venezuela of businessman Luigi Gasperin
The Italian businessman Luigi Gasperin was released from prison in Venezuela and is already in the Italian embassy in Caracas, the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, confirmed this Thursday on his social networks.
“Luigi Gasperin is also free. He is now at the headquarters of our embassy in Caracas. In recent days, we had obtained the order for his release. Tonight he was released from prison,” explains Tajani.
The Democratic Unity Platform already reported last night on the release of Gasperín, along with other opponents. Gasperin’s release joins those of the aid worker Alberto Trentini and the businessman Mario Burlò released last Monday from the Rodeo 1 prison in Caracas.
Gasperin, 77, was the owner of Técnica Petrolera WLP, a company among the most important in the Monagas region, a long-time partner of the state-owned PDVSA. Last August he was arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged attack against Nicolás Maduro apparently organized by a network of conspirators in the central Plaza Venezuela in Caracas. Among them was Gasperin, accused of having supplied the explosives for that attack, Italian media explain.
Tajani explained after the release of Trentini and Burlò that although all detainees with exclusively Italian passports have already been released, 42 Italian-Venezuelans still remained in Venezuelan prisons, of which 24 are considered political prisoners, and he assured that the Executive will continue working to achieve new releases. (Efe)
