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. A year later on 18 November 20… 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. As the lead attorney for Chávez's defense team, she was instrumental in securing Chávez's release from prison in 1994 after his While serving as chair of the Political Command of the Bolivarian Revolution, Flores was part of the Tactical Command for the Revolution, an organization that ran the majority of Hugo Chávez's political machine.
Both opposition and members of the government denounced the alleged nepotism calling it an injustice… Flores responded to the reporters who shared the nepotism allegations stating it was part of a smear campaign, calling them "mercenaries of the pen".
At a presentation at the XXXII International Conference on Drugs in 2015, commander of the Campo Flores and Flores de Freitas were allegedly involved in illicit activities such as drug trafficking and possibly financially assisted President Maduro's presidential campaign in the BOGOTA – Two nephews of Venezuela’s powerful first lady Cilia Flores were arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into …
The … According to Tal Cual, 16 relatives of Flores were in an office while she was in the National Assembly. Among evidence investigators obtained are text messages between the nephews and Cilia Flores in which the trio allegedly discuss the cocaine shipment, two people familiar with the case said. On 7 April, days before the On 11 April while opposition marchers headed towards Miraflores Palace in protest, Bolivarian Circles gathered around the palaceIn 2000, Flores was elected as a deputy in the National Assembly.From 2012 until the election of Maduro, she served as the Attorney General of Venezuela.As First Lady, Flores ran for a seat in the National Assembly in Flores' son, Walter Jacob Gavidia Flores, whose last salary through 2015 was less than $1,000, made multiple international trips in 2015 and 2016 on private flights costing approximately $20,000 per trip. The next day on 4 October 2015, the two flew from Venezuela to In late-October, CS-1, who presented himself as a Mexican drug boss and CS-2, presenting himself as an associate of CS-1, flew to Caracas, Venezuela to meet with the nephews.On 10 November 2015, Campo Flores and Flores de Freites were flown into The two were interviewed separately on the DEA plane.Due to the extradition process, New York courts could not apprehend those who assisted the nephews on their way to Haiti,On 28 October 2016, a Honduran man, Roberto de Jesús Soto García, was arrested in Honduras and extradited to the United States. Gavidia Flores spent most of his time in the United States, though he also took chartered flights to France, Germany, Malta and Spain.On 10 November 2015, two nephews of Cilia Flores, Efraín Antonio Campos Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, were arrested in On 18 November 2016, Flores' two nephews were found guilty of trying to ship drugs into the United States so they could "obtain a large amount of cash to help their family stay in power".On 27 March 2018, Panama sanctioned 55 public officialsThe Treasury Department seized a private jet and imposed sanctions on Maduro's inner circle in September 2018;Flores had her first marriage with Walter Ramón Gavidia. According to authorities, Soto García was responsible for transporting drug shipments from In June 2016, Yazenky Antonio Lamas Rondón, the pilot of the plane which transported the cocaine and the two nephews, was arrested at the The nephews originally plead not guilty to the charges of conspiring to transport cocaine into the United States,On 18 November 2016, the jury reached a verdict finding the two nephews guilty of attempting to traffic drugs into the United States.Two informants that allegedly observed the nephews were murdered shortly before and after their arrest, raising concerns that the drug trafficking operation was larger that suspected.It is thought to be that the nephews were not "the brains" of the trafficking attempt but were working under the International media focused on the events surrounding the nephews and their trial while Venezuelan media was largely censored from revealing that the two were related to the President Maduro and his wife.After Maduro's nephews were apprehended by the DEA for the illegal distribution of cocaine on 10 November 2015, Maduro posted a statement on Twitter criticizing "attacks and imperialist ambushes" which was viewed by many media outlets as being directed towards the United States.Roberto de Jesús Soto Garcia, a Honduran man who provided assistance to the smugglers, has been linked to Venezuela's Vice President scandal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's nephews smuggling cocaine The nephews and DEA informants met on multiple occasions in Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela while every meeting "produced an audio recording plus three to seven videos". Venezuelan first lady's nephews plead not guilty to drug charges December 18, 2015 / 11:14 AM / AP NEW YORK -- One of two nephews of Venezuela's powerful first lady Cilia Flores … Flores was accused of nepotism with individuals claiming that several of her close relatives became employees of the National Assembly while she was a deputy. Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady have been sentenced to 18 years in prison following their convictions in New York on drug conspiracy charges.