Susana Barreiros

Susana Barreiros
Born Susana Virginia Barreiros Rodríguez
11 July 1981
Nationality Venezuelan
Alma mater Universidad Santa María

Susana Virginia Barreiros Rodríguez (11 July 1981) is a Venezuelan judge in charge of the case of the opposition leader Leopoldo López, designated as Public Defender of Venezuela in 2015.[1][2] She currently doesn't hold ownership of the position and occupies it provisionally.[3]

On 1 March 2003 she entered the roster of the Judicial Branch. On 12 August 2010 the Judicial Commission designated Barreiros as the substitute of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, imprisoned after delivering an independent sentence in favor of indicted businessman Eligio Cedeño, ending in charge of the First Instance of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas. In 2012 the Supreme Tribunal of Justice names her as antiterrorist judge along with lawyer Alí Fabricio Paredes. However, her partner is dismissed after sentencing in favor of drug trafficker Walid Makled. On 6 May 2015 she graduated as magister in criminal law from the Universidad Santa María. On 10 July 2015 she's included as provisional judge to cover vacant positions due to rest permissions, vacations, inhibitions and recusations of the Court of Appeals of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Judicial Circumscription of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas.[3]

Barreiros has been in charge of many cases linked with banking institutions: in January 2014 she sentenced José Nicolás Tovar Jiménez, Ramón Heraldo Paredes and Laejandro Néstor Tineo Salas after discovering falsified notes of the former Agricultural Development Bank (BANDAGRO). She had the expedients of the cases of Ricardo Fernández Berruecos y Arné Chacón, brother former minister Jesse Chacón, both responsible of the small bank crisis 2009. She sentenced freedom for Chacón.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "¿Qué hará Susana Barreiros como defensora pública?". El Nacional. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "designada defensora pública de Venezuela". Telesur. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "De verduga de Leopoldo a Defensora Pública". Tal Cual. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
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