Venezuela’s Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, warned that he will be monitoring any act that intends to initiate an escalation of violence
EFE (via 14ymedio), Caracas, July 29, 2024 — The Prosecutor’s Office of Venezuela announced on Monday the opening of an investigation into an alleged plan of people linked to the majority opposition to invalidate the results of the presidential elections, held on Sunday, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed president-elect by the National Electoral Council. In a statement to journalists, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said that yesterday the electoral system suffered a “cyber attack from North Macedonia,” whose intention was to “manipulate the data that was being received” on the votes in more than 15,000 authorized polling places.
“They wanted to invalidate the votes of the automated system,” stressed the prosecutor, who blamed the attack on the opposition leader María Corina Machado, as well as former deputy Lester Toledo and former mayor Leopoldo López, both