The 25-page charging document details a litany of allegations, including accusations that Maduro and his wife ordered kidnappings, beatings and murders.

The indictment was unsealed hours after U.S. forces launched an attack on Venezuela and captured its president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Indictment accuses Venezuelan president of running a ‘corrupt’ government fuelled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded US with cocaine