CARACAS, Feb 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that executives appointed to boards affiliated with state oil firm PDVSA –\u00a0in a bid for control by opposition leader Juan Guaido – face criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court – packed with loyalists for Nicolas Maduro – ordered legal action against 15 executives that the National Assembly, headed by Guaido, named on Wednesday to form four new executive boards for PDVSA and its US-based affiliate Citgo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guaido –\u00a0who has been recognised as acting president by more than 50 countries – is locked in a battle with Maduro for control of the crisis-hit country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guaido celebrated the appointments as a “step forward in the reconstruction of PDVSA,” but Maduro had warned that those accepting “illegal” appointments would face justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The high court ruled that the executives were named by a legislature whose decisions are “null,” and that the appointees should face prosecution for crimes including “usurpation”, “corruption”, “organised crime” and “terrorism”.
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The Supreme Court decision set in motion the process of extraditing the accused, most of whom are in the United States, and freezing their accounts. — NNN-AGENCIES
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