Spanish tourist's husband 'plotted her murder to claim on her life insurance'
Sunday, December 21, 2014 @ 1:01 AM
THE husband of a Spanish tourist who was murdered on Monday in Venezuela has been arrested on suspicion of plotting her death in order to claim on her life insurance.
María Liz Cristaldo López, 35, was shot as she tried to run from the scene of a robbery in the densely-populated La Lechuga district of the city of Maracaibo.
She had been conned by a taxi driver transporting her and her husband, Jesús González, 36, who was injured in the struggle that saw them relieved of their mobile phones, gold jewellery, money and other personal effects.
González, originally said to be a Chilean national but now reported to be from the north-western region of Galicia in Spain, is said to have been in cahoots with a Venezuelan man and his partner to kill the young woman for financial gain, according to the Secretary of State for Public Order and Safety, Jairo Ramírez.
The Venezuelan Crime and Forensic Police Investigation Unit (CICPC) in the state of La Zulia where the murder took place said they arrested a man called Miguel who admitted he and the woman's husband had been planning 'from Spain, for a long time' how to make her death look like a random murder in order for González to claim on her life insurance policy.
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