{"id":148611,"date":"2025-08-10T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148611"},"modified":"2025-08-10T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:30:50","slug":"doj-offers-50-million-reward-for-information-leading-to-arrest-of-venezuelas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/doj-offers-50-million-reward-for-information-leading-to-arrest-of-venezuelas-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ offers $50 million reward for information leading to arrest of Venezuela\u2019s Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 10, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Trump Department of Justice on Thursday increased the reward offered for information that leads to the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to $50 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148612\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-148612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wikmad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bounty had been set at $25 million by the Biden DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security. Therefore, we\u2019ve doubled his reward to $50 million,\u201d Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro was indicted during the first Trump Administration in 2020 on U.S. charges of narco-terrorism for allegedly attempting to weaponize cocaine by \u201cflooding\u201d U.S. communities with the drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Trump\u2019s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes,\u201d Bondi said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheJusticeDept<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StateDept<\/a> are announcing a $50 MILLION REWARD for information leading to the arrest of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D8LNqjS9yk\">pic.twitter.com\/D8LNqjS9yk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGPamBondi\/status\/1953583017353466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Authorities report they have seized over $700 million worth of assets linked to Maduro to include two private jets and nine vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration reported it has recovered 7 tons of cocaine linked to the Venezuelan dictator often trafficked by members of Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa, and Cartel of the Sons street gangs, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the DOJ&#8217;s announcement, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said in a statement: \u201cWe\u2019re not surprised, coming from whom it comes from. The same one who promised a nonexistent \u2018secret list\u2019 of Epstein and who wallows in scandals for political favors. Her show is a joke, a desperate distraction from her own misery.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/fight-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\">Support<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Free Press Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2025 Real World News The Trump Department of Justice on Thursday increased the reward offered for information that leads to the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to $50 million. The bounty had been set at $25 million by the Biden DOJ. \u201cHe is one of the largest narco traffickers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,3,9,10,368,11,12,44,5],"tags":[367,6],"class_list":["post-148611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-venezuela","category-washington","category-world-links","category-world-news","category-world-tribune","tag-doj-offers-50-million-reward-for-information-leading-to-arrest-of-venezuelas-maduro","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}