Venezuela: Venezuela’s deposed attorney general Luisa Ortega has called upon the country’s supreme court of justice (TSJ) in exile to request that Interpol issue an international arrest warrant for President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly taking bribes from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. Speaking during a press conference in the Colombian capital Bogotá, Ortega alleged that Odebrecht contributed to the 2012 re-election campaign of former president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) and that the Odebrecht cash had gone, via ghost companies in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, to then-foreign minister Maduro. Ortega said the TSJ should also request that Peruvian authorities arrest Maduro if he decides to attend the 13-14 April Summit of the Americas in Lima. The president of Venezuela’s government-controlled constituent assembly, Hermann Escarrá, advised Maduro on 19 February not to endeavour to attend the summit, at which he has been informed he would “not be welcome”.
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