The Public Ministry provisionally dismissed a criminal complaint filed against Annette Planells, Mauricio Valenzuela, and other members of the digital outlet Foco. The complaint was for crimes against the inviolability of secrecy and the right to privacy, against life and personal integrity, in the form of psychological injuries, to the detriment of former deputy Zulay Rodríguez.
The dismissal was issued through resolution number 235 of December 19, 2025. The decision was made by the Section of Crimes Against Freedom, Against Honor, Against the Administration of Justice, and Against the Internal Personality of the State.
Essentially, the former deputy filed the complaint after the publication on the said outlet's platforms of a series of audio recordings in which Rodríguez Loo was having a conversation with her husband. The complainant alleged that these publications were made public without her consent on June 19, 2023.
At the time, the filed complaint had been admitted through a resolution of July 9, 2023. Rodríguez Loo complained that the accused used her image to try to link her to the possible murder of a person identified as a drug trafficker, while also exposing something as 'intimate' as the relationship between her and her husband. All of this, with the purpose of causing her harm.
The dismissal of the case comes at a time when Planells, former president of the newspaper La Prensa and founder of Movin, has been labeled an 'extortionist' by the ambassador of the United States, Kevin Marino Cabrera.
