The US has doubled a reward for the arrest of $ 50 meters (£ 37.2m) for the leading information for the arrest of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, accused of being a “one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers”.
US President Donald Trump is a long-time critic of Maduro, who returned to office in January after the election in January by voting allegations. The results were widely rejected by the international community.
Attorney General Palm Bandy said the US would double the already declared reward of $ 25m (£ 18.6m), and said that Maduro was directly associated with the operation of drug smuggling.
Venezuela Foreign Minister Yavan Gill said the new reward was “pathetic” and called it “political propaganda”.
Gill said, “We are not surprised, from which it comes,” Gill said, Bandi accused the headlines of sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein to be “attempted” from the headlines.
During Trump’s first term, the US government accused Maduro and other high-ranked Venezuela officials with several offenses, including narco-violence, corruption and drug trafficking.
At that time, the US Department of Justice claimed that Maduro had worked with the Colombian rebel group FARC to use cocaine as a weapon to “flood in the United States”.
In a video posted on X on Thursday, Bondi accused Maduro of coordinating with groups such as train de Argua -a Venezuela gangs, which the Trump administration has declared a powerful criminal network in a terrorist organization – and Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico.
He claimed that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) “seized 30 tonnes of cocaine associated with Maduro and his colleagues, with about seven tons of Maduro”.
Maduro has earlier rejected US claims that they have directly participated in drug trafficking.
Bondi’s comments are an extension of a long -running tension between the US and the Venezuela government – but the Attorney General did not indicate any other indication that the government renewed that the conceived and the results of cash encouragement would be.
Maduro – Who is the leader of the United Socialist Party and has succeeded in 2013 Hugo Chavez – but repeatedly accused of suppressing opposition groups and preventing dissatisfaction in Venezuela, including the use of violence.
He staged a protest in view of last year’s election and maintained his hold on power.
But in June, Hugo Karvajal – The head of Venezuela’s military intelligence in the east – was convicted of smuggling allegations of smuggling several drugs after being arrested in Madrid and tested in the US.
Carvajal was a frightened spiomaster, who had gone under the name El Polo, or Chicken, but ran away after calling the army to return an opposition candidate and to overthrow Maduro.
He initially denied allegations of drug, but later convicted his petition, speculating that he signed a deal with US officials for low punishment in exchange for information about Maduro.
The UK and the European Union announced sanctions against Maduro’s government after returning to their office earlier this year.
