A shipping tycoon is paying the legal fees of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s two nephews, who have been charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to import 800 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S.

, a wealthy, politically well-connected Venezuelan businessman, said in an interview that he is paying the legal bills of Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas. The two men were arrested by police in Haiti in November 2015 and transported to New York, where they have pleaded not guilty.

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