US Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed Saturday that Venezuela’s toppled leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife will face “the full wrath of American justice,” under a fresh criminal indictment filed in New York.
Bondi posted on X that Maduro and his wife — who had been removed from Venezuela in a surprise overnight US military operation — “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
Maduro was initially charged in 2020, but an updated indictment shared by Bondi on Saturday added his wife, Cilia Flores.
The so-called superseding indictment also targets Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, considered one of the most powerful people in the country. It also charges the Maduros’ adult son.
These six people are charged among other things with being linked to Colombia’s FARC leftist guerrillas, which the United States has classified as a terrorist organization, and to drug cartels “to transport thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States.”
In August the Justice Department doubled to $50 million a reward for information leading to the arrest of Maduro and Cabello.
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