⁍ Venezuela’s pro-government media named an alleged U.S. spy who President Nicolas Maduro said was captured last week near the country’s largest oil refinery complex.
⁍ Venezuelan soldiers seized a satellite phone, credit cards and mobile phones, Ultimas Noticias newspaper said.
⁍ Neither Venezuela’s information ministry nor prosecutor’s office immediately responded to requests for comment on Sunday.
– Venezuela says it has captured a former US Marine who was serving in Iraq when he spied on the country’s largest oil refinery complex, Reuters reports. According to local media, John Heath Mattew was arrested Thursday with three other people, including a sergeant major in Venezuela’s National Guard. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says Mattew was spying on the Paraguana refinery complex and had “specialized weapons … large amounts of dollars and other items.” “All the evidence is there, the photographs, the videos, this spy is a marine, who was serving as a marine at CIA bases in Iraq,” Maduro said Friday.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-usa/venezuelan-media-name-alleged-us-spy-arrested-near-refinery-complex-idUSKBN2640TA