U.S. says politics drove Venezuela first lady's nephews in drug deal
U.S. prosecutors claimed that two nephews
of Venezuela's first lady sought to carry out a multi-million-dollar drug deal
to obtain a large amount of cash to help the family stay in power, court
documents showed. The claim appeared in a motion filed late Wednesday in
Manhattan federal court in the case of Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's
wife, Cilia Flores. The defendants were arrested in November 2015 in Haiti and
are fighting charges that they tried to send 800 kg of cocaine from Venezuela
to Honduras enroute to the United States. More…
U.S. prosecutors claimed that two nephews
of Venezuela's first lady sought to carry out a multi-million-dollar drug deal
to obtain a large amount of cash to help the family stay in power, court
documents showed. The claim appeared in a motion filed late Wednesday in
Manhattan federal court in the case of Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's
wife, Cilia Flores. The defendants were arrested in November 2015 in Haiti and
are fighting charges that they tried to send 800 kg of cocaine from Venezuela
to Honduras enroute to the United States. More…
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