Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has named a senior military official as his new interior minister despite his being indicted this week in the United States on drug-related charges.

U.S. prosecutors accuse Nestor Reverol of receiving payments from drug traffickers and facilitating the deliveries of cocaine to the United States between 2008 and 2010, when he was head of the anti-narcotics agency.

Prosecutors in New York say Reverol and Molina received payments from drug traffickers in exchange for information about raids, allowed shipments of narcotics to leave the country and secured the release of drugs, cash and suspects.

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