New York: Ousted Venezuelan president and his wife arrived at a New York courthouse on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) where they will be indicted.
Nicolás Maduro and Cecilia Flores were handcuffed and surrounded by heavily armoured federal agents and NYPD police officers as they were taken from their prison cells at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn to be transported to the court precinct in Lower Manhattan.
Scores of heavily armed DEA officers and NYPD cops swarmed them and the streets as the high-security transfer took place.
Maduro arrives at the heliport ahead of his transfer by vehicle to the courthouse.Credit: Bloomberg
Maduro and Flores were extradited to the US on Saturday night following their capture in an audacious military campaign by US forces that had been months in the planning.
