Who is Miriam Morandy? Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Net Worth

On 23 May 2015, Morandy was seen arriving at Maiquetia International Airport with alleged drug kingpin Richard José Cammarano Jaime and her assistant Tibisay Pacheco to board a TAP-Air Portugal flight to Portugal. While leaving their taxi, Morandy, Cammarano and Pacheco were arrested for drug trafficking. She was released shortly after while Cammarano was still detained.

In September 2007 while serving as a judge in the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, Morandy became a holder of 35% of the Comercializadora Jomira company. The company’s was involved in various works that included marketing, office equipment, clothing and food distribution. Comercializadora Jomira was reported to have been worth 150 million bolívares.

Miriam del Valle Morandy Mijares is a Venezuelan lawyer and former Judge of the Criminal Appeals Court of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice between 2006 and 2010. Morandy has been known to have a close relationship with the First Lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores, being described as the “comadre of Cilia”.

Morandy was born in Maturín, Venezuela. She attended Universidad Santa María in Caracas between 1983 and 1988, earning her law degree. From 1993 to 2000, Morandy studied criminology at the Instituto Universitario de Policía Científica and earned her master’s degree on the subject.

Her professional career began with the Technical Judicial Police in 1981, working on penal code issues. Throughout the 1990s, Morandy acted as a professor for DISIP, the Public Ministry of Venezuela, the Venezuelan National Guard and the Caracas Metropolitan Police. Into the 2000s she participated in multiple courses for CICPC, local organizations and for the First Central American and Caribbean Congress on Social Security, teaching military and civilian personnel in Honduras. Morandy also ruled over the cases of Ivan Simonovis, Lazaro Forero and Henry Vivas of the Caracas Metropolitan Police for their actions during the 2002 Venezuelan coup d’état attempt. In 2004, Morandy was named a judge of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice by the National Assembly and became Criminal Division in 2005.