US BANDITS STEAL VENEZUELA'S AIRFORCE ONE?

U.S. officials say associates of the Venezuelan leader in late 2022 and early 2023 used a Caribbean-based shell company to hide their involvement in the purchase of the plane, valued at the time at $13 million, from a company in Florida. The plane was then exported from the U.S. to Venezuela, through the Caribbean, in April 2023 in a transaction meant to circumvent an executive order that bars U.S. persons from business transactions with representatives of Maduro’s government. BY ERIC TUCKER, REGINA GARCIA CANO AND JOSHUA GOODMAN

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