Narcosobrinos affair
Scandal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's nephews smuggling cocaine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Narcosobrinos affair?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
The Narcosobrinos affair (Spanish for drug-nephews) is the situation of events that surrounded two nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores who were arrested for narcotics trafficking. The nephews, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, were arrested on 10 November 2015 by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after attempting to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.[1][2] A year later on 18 November 2016, the two nephews were found guilty, with the cash allegedly destined to "help their family stay in power".[3] On 14 December 2017, the two were sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment.[4]
Date | 10 November 2015 |
---|---|
Location | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Suspects | Efraín Antonio Campo Flores, Francisco Flores, Roberto de Jesus Soto Garcia and others. |
In October 2022 Campos and Flores were released and sent to Venezuela as a prisoner swap reached with United States in exchange of five Venezuelan-American directors of the oil refinery corporation CITGO (part of the Citgo Six) imprisoned in Venezuela.[5]