Venezuela accused of forging Maduro assassination plot evidence


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Jul 2014

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan officials used forged emails to accuse government adversaries of plotting to kill President Nicolas Maduro, according to a private investigation firm hired by one of the accused.

Ruling Socialist Party leaders in May said a group of ardent government critics were preparing to "annihilate" Maduro as part of a planned coup, showing images of emails they said were evidence of the plot.

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