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Venezuelan ex-officials indicted over alleged drug trafficking links
Source: The Guardian
Venezuelan ex-officials indicted over alleged drug trafficking links
Nestor Reverol and Edylberto Molina, former heads of National
Anti-Drugs Office, indicted in US over claims they were bribed
for helping drug traffickers
Sibylla Brodzinsky and Oliver Laughland
Tuesday 2 August 2016 00.47 BST
Two former leading officials of Venezuela’s anti-drugs agency have been indicted in a US federal court on charges that they helped drug traffickers move their product in exchange for bribes, in the latest action by US authorities against people closely linked to the Venezuelan government.
In an indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court, US prosecutors said Nestor Reverol, who was removed as the chief of the National Guard last month, and Edylberto Molina, a military attache posted in Germany, allegedly took bribes from drug traffickers when they were the director and deputy director, respectively, of the National Anti-Drugs Office.
From January 2008 to December 2010, Reverol, 51, and Molina, 53, allegedly alerted traffickers to future drug raids or the locations of law enforcement officers, prosecutors said in the indictment dated January 2015, but unsealed on Monday.
The two men also allegedly obstructed investigations to allow drugs to leave Venezuela ultimately bound for the United States, arranged for the release of people arrested in drug cases, and for that of cash and drugs seized by law enforcement, prosecutors said.
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Nestor Reverol and Edylberto Molina, former heads of National
Anti-Drugs Office, indicted in US over claims they were bribed
for helping drug traffickers
Sibylla Brodzinsky and Oliver Laughland
Tuesday 2 August 2016 00.47 BST
Two former leading officials of Venezuela’s anti-drugs agency have been indicted in a US federal court on charges that they helped drug traffickers move their product in exchange for bribes, in the latest action by US authorities against people closely linked to the Venezuelan government.
In an indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court, US prosecutors said Nestor Reverol, who was removed as the chief of the National Guard last month, and Edylberto Molina, a military attache posted in Germany, allegedly took bribes from drug traffickers when they were the director and deputy director, respectively, of the National Anti-Drugs Office.
From January 2008 to December 2010, Reverol, 51, and Molina, 53, allegedly alerted traffickers to future drug raids or the locations of law enforcement officers, prosecutors said in the indictment dated January 2015, but unsealed on Monday.
The two men also allegedly obstructed investigations to allow drugs to leave Venezuela ultimately bound for the United States, arranged for the release of people arrested in drug cases, and for that of cash and drugs seized by law enforcement, prosecutors said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/02/venezuelan-ex-officials-indicted-over-alleged-drug-trafficking-links
