Venezuela Supreme Court orders prosecution of new oil boards

Opposition leader Juan Guaido (L) is locked in a battle with President Nicolas Maduro (R) for control of Venezuela (AFP Photo/Federico Parra , Leo RAMIREZ)

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela's ultimate courtroom on Thursday ordered that executives appointed to boards affiliated with country oil company PDVSA -- in a bid for control by opposition leader Juan Guaido -- face crook prosecution.

The court docket -- filled with Maduro loyalists -- ordered prison motion against 15 executives that the countrywide assembly, headed by using Guaido, named on Wednesday to shape 4 new government forums for PDVSA and its US-based totally associate Citgo.

Guaido -- who has been recognized as performing president by using more than 50 countries -- is locked in a battle with Maduro for manipulate of the crisis-hit country.

Guaido celebrated the appointments as a "breakthrough within the reconstruction of PDVSA," however Maduro had warned that those accepting "unlawful" appointments might face justice.

The excessive court dominated that the executives have been named with the aid of a legislature whose selections are "null," and that the appointees must face prosecution for crimes which includes "usurpation," "corruption," "organized crime" and "terrorism."

The very best courtroom decision set in motion the process of extraditing the accused, maximum of whom are in the united states, and freezing their debts.