Spanish police arrested a former aide to Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations on a U.S. warrant in connection with a $1 billion bribery scheme at Venezuela's state-run oil company, officials said Friday. The four men are the most-senior former officials detained as part of an ongoing U.S. probe into corruption at state oil company PDVSA. In 2015, the U.S. Treasury Department accused a bank in Andorra of laundering some $2 billion stolen from PDVSA. Several PDVSA officials were on the plane. "There are lots of people that are not sleeping well tonight with these arrests," Wilson told The Associated Press on Friday.

Source: ABC News October 27, 2017 20:34 UTC