CARACAS (Reuters) - Socialist Party legislators on Wednesday asked state prosecutors to investigate Venezuela's billionaire businessman Lorenzo Mendoza and Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann for alleged crimes including "treason."
State media last week broadcast a private conversation between the pair in which Hausmann insists Venezuela's crisis-hit economy will need an International Monetary Fund (IMF) intervention to the tune of $40 billion to $50 billion.
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