The Trump administration is drafting a criminal indictment to potentially accuse Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez of corruption and money laundering, according to new reporting by Reuters. 

U.S. federal prosecutors in Florida have communicated to Rodriguez that she could soon face criminal charges unless she continues to comply with Trump’s demands following the ouster of former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in January, sources told the news service. Reuters has not seen written charges but said it spoke with four people briefed on the effort.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami is preparing the draft indictment, which has been evolving over the past two months, Reuters said. The threatened charges center on Rodriguez’s alleged involvement in laundering funds from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA and cover activity between 2021 and 2025, according to the report.

The news agency said that, separate from the draft indictment, U.S. officials have presented Rodriguez with a list of at least seven former high-level party officials, associates, and family members that Washington wants her to arrest or keep in Venezuelan custody for potential extradition. 

Among the high-profile individuals the United States is targeting is Alex Saab, a close Maduro ally and financial operator within the Chavista movement, four sources told Reuters. Saab was previously arrested in Cabo Verde in 2020, extradited to the United States, and later released in 2023 by the Biden administration in a prisoner swap. 

Saab, who is believed to be the target of a newly sealed money-laundering indictment in the United States, was arrested again in early February and remains detained by Venezuela’s intelligence service SEBIN, according to the report. 

For well over a decade, Saab has also been a source of widespread speculation, in part because the sources of his money and influence remain unclear in public circles. A recent report by El Pais said that, under Maduro, Saab became not only wealthy but also a kind of “super minister” in Venezuela’s government. 

“When there was no milk in Venezuela, Saab was called in. When there was no gas, he was summoned to fix things,” the newspaper wrote. 

Another name on the U.S. list is media mogul Raul Gorrin, who has also been detained by SEBIN within the past month, according to Reuters. Gorrin faces multiple U.S. federal charges tied to bribery, money laundering, and corruption involving PDVSA. 

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