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Prosecutors in New York are expected to file additional criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, related to the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuelan government custody.
According to a report from CNN, the charges concern what the U.S. government has described as the wrongful detention of more than a dozen U.S. citizens in Venezuelan prisons while Maduro led the government. An announcement could come as soon as Thursday, October 8, according to Justice Department sources who spoke with the outlet on condition of anonymity.
Investigators have also discussed charging several additional people for an alleged role in the torture of Americans, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A spokesperson for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is handling the existing case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. No public statement or exact quotation from prosecutors on the anticipated charges has been released.
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Maduro and Flores were taken into U.S. custody on January 3, 2026, during a U.S. military operation in Caracas and brought to New York. A superseding indictment unsealed that day in the Southern District of New York charges Maduro with narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine, and offenses involving machine guns and destructive devices.
Flores is charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and firearms-related counts; she is not named in the narco-terrorism conspiracy count. Other defendants include Diosdado Cabello Rondón, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, and Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores.
Both Maduro and Flores pleaded not guilty and are held without bail. Last month, Maduro moved to dismiss the charges on grounds of head-of-state immunity and official-act immunity. U.S. prosecutors opposed the motion in an early October filing, arguing that Maduro and Flores are “former rogue officials of a formerly rogue state with no entitlement to immunity.”
The expected charges would expand the criminal case already pending against Maduro and Flores in Manhattan federal court. No trial date has been set, and the defendants continue to contest the existing indictment.
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