Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan military intelligence director, disappeared when he was about to be extradited to the United States on drug-related charges.

The police went to Carvajal's house in Madrid to arrest him but he disappeared. Carvajal's lawyer, Maraa Dolores de Arguelles, said she did not know where the former intelligence boss was. "They are looking for him," the Spanish national police spokesman said in Madrid on November 13.

Hugo Carvajal, 59, former director of military intelligence of Venezuela under former president Hugo Chavez, was stripped of his post by President Nicolas Maduro's government after publicly supporting opposition leader Juan Guaido in February. . He fled by train to the Dominican Republic before coming to Spain.

The US Treasury Department suspects he supports the drug trafficking of the FARC guerrilla group in Colombia. In an indictment filed in New York in 2011, Carvajal was accused of coordinating the transport of more than 5.6 tons of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006 to later travel to the United States.

Carvajal was arrested by Spanish police in April at the request of US authorities, but the Spanish high court in September ordered him to be released and refused a US extradition request, saying it was "vague" and "politically motivated".

The State Department is against the verdict. The Spanish court reversed the decision on November 15, allowing the extradition of Carvajal to the United States.