MiamiÁlvaro Pulido Vargas, indicted in 2019, is in US custody.
Prosecutors say he profited from Venezuela’s state food programme.
Prosecutors allege $1.6 billion in contracts won by bribes carried inflated prices, and about $180 million moved through US banks.
Prosecutors did not say when or where he was arrested.
He appears in a South Florida federal court on Tuesday, 13 October.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 80+ reports worldwide
- The New York Times leans critical
- ties Pulido's case to the Maduro regime's food, medicine and housing programs, and frames the arrest as part of the Maduro prosecution
- Telangana Today leans critical
- details the alleged exploitation of Venezuelan food, medicine and housing programs and quotes DOJ's 'no longer a fugitive' line
- Fox News leans critical
- counts 13 money-laundering charges across two South Florida cases and names the alias German Enrique Rubio Salas
Sources: The New York Times, Fox News, Telangana Today