US oil executives moved from house arrest to prison after Guaido meets with Trump
Source: CNN
Six oil executives held in Venezuela for more than two years were suddenly moved from house arrest into prison on Wednesday night, just hours after Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido met with US President Donald Trump.
The "CITGO 6" -- Tomeu Vadell, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Alirio Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano and Jose Angel Pereira -- were taken by the Maduro regime's intelligence services from their separate house arrest locations, according to several family members, Vadell's legal team, and the State Department. According to the legal team, they were removed "without warnings or judicial order" and are being held together in the same cell at El Heliocoide prison, even though "the house arrest has not been revoked by the appropriate court."
"Lawyers and relatives were not informed, and the only information shared by the SEBIN officials on duty was that they were taken away 'for medical checks,'" the lawyers' statement said referring to the Venezuelan intelligence service.
The US State Department condemned the move and called for their immediate release.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/06/politics/citgo-6-moved-from-house-arrest/index.html
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