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US imposes new sanctions on Maduro family members, oil ships
The U.S. sanctioned Maduro’s nephews, a Panamanian businessman, six shipping firms, and vessels accused of illicit oil trafficking to disrupt narcotics and oil funding for Maduro’s regime.
- On Thursday, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions targeting three nephews of First Lady Cilia Flores, six shipping firms, six crude oil tankers, and a seized oil tanker off Venezuela's coast.
- Treasury officials said the steps are meant to disrupt corruption, narcotrafficking and sanctions evasion sustaining Nicolás Maduro's government, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying, `Nicolas Maduro and his criminal associates in Venezuela are flooding the United States with drugs that are poisoning the American people.`
- After prior convictions and a 2022 prisoner swap, the nephews Efraín Antonio Campo Flores, Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Carlos Erik Malpica Flores are again designated, with the Treasury blocking their property and freezing businesses half owned by them.
- The Treasury designated the White Crane, Kiara M, H. Constance, Lattafa, Tamia and Monique as blocked property, urging banks, traders, insurers and shippers to review exposure while the forfeiture process for the seized vessel and its cargo proceeds.
- In recent weeks, the Pentagon surged assets including USS Gerald R. Ford amid the largest U.S. Caribbean deployment, while strikes killed at least 87 and Venezuela condemned the tanker seizure as piracy, with UN Secretary-General António Guterres urging restraint and Russian President Vladimir Putin backing Maduro.
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Trump’s new move against Maduro: US sanctions family after seizing oil tanker, censoring 6 vessels
Franqui Flores and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephews of Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores, were hit with sanctions.The two were dubbed the "narco nephews" after their arrest in Haiti in 2015 in a US Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation
·Mumbai, India
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Trump threatens land invasion of Venezuela
The United States has defended the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker as a major US naval build-up in the region continues. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described the seizure as illegal with the US also imposing further sanctions on relatives of Maduro and other targetted naval vessels.
·Sydney, Australia
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