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There is substantial reporting linking Venezuelan officials and businessmen to multi‑million and billion‑dollar bribery and money‑laundering schemes — including a U.S. case that traced more than $1 bi...
The United States has criminal indictments and reward offers against Nicolás Maduro and several top Venezuelan officials—U.S. charges include narcotics and related offenses and the State Department ha...
U.S. prosecutors and federal investigators have pursued multiple Venezuela-related money-laundering, corruption and narco-terrorism prosecutions that have touched high-level Venezuelan officials and i...
Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, multiple U.S. citizens held abroad have been freed through a range of diplomatic deals and negotiations — including high-profile exchanges with V...
Since 2019 the United States has filed high-profile indictments against Nicolás Maduro and more than a dozen senior Venezuelan officials — including charges of narco‑terrorism, corruption and money‑la...
An extra‑judicial seizure of a sitting head of state or envoy — an “abduction” — would almost always violate international law and sovereign immunity norms; the Alex Saab episode shows how contentious...
No U.S. law‑enforcement indictments or congressional reports cited in the supplied reporting officially name American politicians as targets in corruption probes tied to Venezuela; the unsealed U.S. c...
Public reporting shows that under Nicolás Maduro’s rule the Venezuelan state sold and moved significant amounts of its gold reserves — including documented exports to Switzerland and decades‑old holdi...