March 26, 2020

Maduro Indicted For Narco Terrorism: US Offers $15M Reward

By Newsroom

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro and four of his key aides on charges of narco-terrorism. And the State Department is offering cash rewards of “up to US$55m for information leading to the arrests or convictions of Maduro and four of his associates”. The rewards, up to $15m for Maduro and up to $10 million each for the others, are being offered under the department’s Narcotics Rewards Program. One indictment by prosecutors in New York accused Maduro and socialist party boss Diosdado Cabello of conspiring with Colombian rebels and members of the Venezuelan military “to flood the United States with cocaine” and use the drug trade as a “weapon against America.” “We estimate that somewhere between 200 and 250 metric tonnes of cocaine are shipped out of Venezuela by these routes. Those 250 metric tonnes equates to 30 million lethal doses,” it said. “While holding key positions in the Maduro regime, these individuals violated the public trust by facilitating shipments of narcotics from Venezuela, including control over planes that leave from a Venezuelan airbase, as well as control of drug routes through the ports in Venezuela,” US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
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