Ortega says she can prove Venezuela’s corruption

Venezuela’s ousted chief prosecutor yesterday accused Nicolás Maduro, its president, of corruption, saying she would turn over proof that would help other countries prosecute him.

Luisa Ortega Diaz spoke during a meeting of the Mercosur trade bloc’s prosecutors in the Brazilian capital of Brasília. Ortega fled following her removal by a new, pro-government constitutional assembly after she broke with the socialist government. “I want to denounce, in front of the world, a grave situation in Venezuela: that of excessive corruption,” she said.