Venezuelan Armed Force (FAN)  Inspector General Melvin Lopez Hidalgo accuses the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of trafficking seized drugs in Venezuela. 

Continuing the running controversy between the US State Department, DEA and the Venezuelan government, the General says the decision to break off relations was not taken lightly ... it was the result of complaints from the National Guard (GN) and a probe into irregularities on the part of DEA agents. 

As president of Defense Council of the Nation Secretariat (Codena) , Lopez Hidalgo  says DEA agents spirited seized drugs to other countries alleging that on several occasions the DEA reported seizures but the amounts were changed ... "what happened with the difference of kilos? ... it shows a procedure that is not legal in Venezuela." 

• Venezuelan  law allows monitored deliveries but not controlled deliveries to ensare narco-traffickers. 

Controlled deliveries, the General says, leads to further crime by instigating and generates corruption because both drugs and money are involved. 

Lopez Hidalgo insists that DEA managed drugs and money in Venezuela without the knowledge of Venezuelan anti-drug agencies ... the DEA, the General maintains, has not answered the charges as yet. 

The General criticizes the fact that the DEA demanded that Venezuelan agencies inform them of what they are doing but did not offer information ... it was strictly a one way street. 

Another source of concern raised by the Venezuelan government is the impossibility of bringing a DEA agent to justice if s/he is commits wrongdoing in Venezuela.