A Venezuelan businessman brought a simple pitch to top Maduro officials: Help unseat the president in exchange for having U.S. sanctions lifted
CARACAS, Venezuela—To tempt senior Venezuelan officials to turn on their president, opposition leaders recently turned to a wealthy Venezuelan businessman wanted in Florida for allegedly laundering billions of dollars for top regime figures.
Raúl Gorrín, who amassed a fortune while forging alliances with figures in President Nicolás Maduro’s government, played a central role in an ill-fated scheme in late April to induce the defense minister, the supreme court’s chief justice and the head of military counterintelligence...
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