US court finds Venezuelan First Lady’s 2 nephews guilty of drug trafficking

Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady Cilia Flores were convicted in Manhattan on Friday of conspiring to transport cocaine to the United States, NY Times reported.

Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and his cousin Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas were arrested by undercover American agents in Haiti in November 2015 and taken to the US.

They denied charges of conspiring to smuggle “five or more kilograms” of cocaine into the United States.

The wife of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro said that Mr Campo Flores and Mr Flores de Freitas had been “kidnapped” by US Drug Enforcement Agents.