New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The Trump administration reportedly doubled to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Thursday in a video announcing the reward, "Under President Trump's leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes."

Trump accused Maduro of being one of the world's largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine, the Associated Press reported.

Maduro was indicted in Manhattan federal court in 2020, during the first Trump presidency, along with several close allies on federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine.

At the time, the US ...