CARACAS, VENEZUELA - MARCH 12: Tareck El Aissami, Minister of Production and National Industry, photographed during a press conference of the questioned President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on March 12, 2020. (Credit: Carolina Cabral / Getty Images)
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The prosecutor for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss reported this Wednesday that Florida businessman Víctor Mones Coro was sentenced to 55 months in jail for having provided millions of dollars in private flight services to several people linked to the government of the questioned president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
These people include former vice president Tareck El Aissami, businessman Samark López Bello and the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Maikel Moreno.
The statement from the Prosecutor's Office specifies that the air services violated the sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury, in accordance with the Law for the Designation of Foreign Drug Traffickers.
Mones Coro had pleaded guilty to the charges in November 2019.
When reporting the sentence, the prosecution's document now cites that trips were also offered to Maduro's presidential campaign in 2018. The Venezuelan president and several of his relatives are accused of narco-terrorism and other related crimes, but they have always denied the accusations .
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Mones Coro's prison sentence will be followed by 2 years of supervised release and he was ordered to pay a fine of US $ 250,000.
CNN requested reactions from the Maduro government, but has yet to receive a response.
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