The National Court refuses to extradite the Venezuelan model Ninoska Vásquez to Mexico

She confirms that there are threats from her ex-partner and maintains that the passport does not locate her at the scene of the events

MADRID, 27 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court has refused to extradite the Venezuelan model Ninoska Vásquez to Mexico, accused in that country of recruiting young people under the promise of working as hostesses to force them into prostitution, understanding that the data contained in the passport of the former Miss Earth Venezuela 2017 concludes that he was not in Mexico on October 9, 2021, when the events occurred.

In an order from the Criminal Chamber of the National Court, to which Europa Press has had access, the court also indicates that there is a real verification of the existence of threats by the model's ex-partner, a Mexican businessman. The magistrates indicate that the knowledge that he had of the processing of the extradition itself by Mexico "is difficult to understand" and "allows one to doubt the origin of the proceedings."

In line, they point out that they have been struck by "the number of videos and WhatsApp messages linked to the proceedings and viewed by the court in which the veracity of the threats suffered by the defendant from her ex-partner when she tells him that he is going to sink her, that he wants to make her suffer, that he hates her, that he is going to kick her and her family out of Mexico or others in which he refers to everything that money can get and to go to jail if he returns to the US ".

On the other hand, the court adds another reason to prevent the handing over of Ninoska Vásquez, and that is that there is a lack of compliance with the formal requirements in the extradition request because the arrest warrant of June 2, 2022 does not include the facts attributed to the defendant and for which the Mexican authorities request her surrender for prosecution.

For the magistrates, this means that the Chamber cannot analyze compliance with the requirements demanded in the Extradition Treaty between the two countries. And it adds that, in addition, the description of the facts that it includes comes without any judicial endorsement in the document signed by the embassy and therefore lacks the value of an imputation within a criminal proceeding.

Regarding the passport, the Chamber reiterates that in the documentation in the file and the information that appears in the passport of Ninoska Vazquez, it is possible to conclude that the defendant was not in Mexico on October 9, 2021, in which she allegedly threatened and threatened two young women to have forced sexual relations with two men. "Reason for which, in view of the material impossibility of committing the accused act, the delivery does not proceed," says the Chamber.

The Hearing concludes that the extraditional demand neither complies with the formal requirements demanded in the Treaty between both countries, nor is it materially possible that the defendant committed the attributed acts. In addition, it adds, it can be deduced from the documentation provided "an eventual spurious and tortious spirit" that cannot be supported by law and this is established by our legal system in accordance with article 11.2 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary.