US offers $5 mln reward for Maduro ally

The United States offered a reward of up to the $ 5 million (R $ 27 million) this Monday (1st) by the Venezuelan Joselit de la Trinidad Ramírez Camacho, a government official from Nicolás Maduro, which the Americans added to the record of fugitives for money laundering and evasion of financial sanctions. Report informs citing the time24 news.

Ramírez Camacho, Venezuela’s current crypto superintendent, was included in the Transnational Organized Crime Reward Program (TOCRP) of the State Department and added to the list of most wanted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), reported the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He noted that the measure seeks to “end corruption and criminality linked to the Maduro regime”.

Since January 2019, the United States has led international pressure to encourage Maduro’s departure, whose re-election in May 2018 the country considers fraudulent and to whom it attributes widespread corruption and serious human rights violations.

Ramírez Camacho, 33, is one of those accused by the Southern District Attorney of New York for money laundering and evasion of U.S. Treasury sanctions related to narcotics, together with current Venezuelan oil minister Tareck El Aissami.

The indictment is part of a mega process unveiled on March 26 by the Department of Justice against Maduro and 14 Venezuelan authorities and former authorities accused of drug trafficking, corruption, drug trafficking, and other criminal charges.