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US Prosecutors Add Torture Charges Against Maduro and Wife Cilia Flores Over Detention of American Citizens
Read this in the Market Flux appFederal prosecutors in New York unsealed a new indictment on Thursday charging former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with torture and additional crimes related to the wrongful detention of more than a dozen US citizens held in Venezuelan government custody. The charges represent a significant expansion of the US criminal case against the couple, who are already held without bail in New York after being captured in a US military raid on the presidential palace in Caracas in January and have pleaded not guilty to earlier narcoterrorism conspiracy charges.
The new indictment centers on allegations that Americans wrongfully detained in Venezuelan prisons were subjected to torture during the period Maduro led the Venezuelan government. Investigators also discussed charging additional individuals for their alleged roles in the torture of the detained Americans, according to people familiar with the case.
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- APBREAKING: U.S. charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture and other crimes in new indictment.
- ReutersLegalJUST IN: Venezuela's Maduro, wife Flores charged in US over alleged torture
- Osint613Nicolás Maduro, the former president of Venezuela, now faces torture charges along with other counts under a new U.S. indictment. The document was unsealed Thursday.
- BusinessFormer Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife face a new criminal charge that they are responsible for the torture of US citizens detained in the South American country
- WsjU.S. Prosecutors Bring Torture Charge Against Nicolás Maduro