Attorney General Bondi Announces $50 Million Reward for Arrest of Nicolás Maduro
August 15, 2025 · The Justice Department · 0:01:30
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What happened
Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that the Department of Justice and the State Department were offering a historic $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro. She said Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations — naming Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa cartel, and the Cartel of the Suns — to bring deadly drugs and violence into the United States.
Bondi said the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, with nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, representing a primary source of income for the cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico. She said cocaine is often laced with fentanyl, resulting in the loss of countless American lives, and that the DOJ has seized over $700 million in Maduro-linked assets, including two private jets and nine vehicles.
She called Maduro one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world and a threat to national security, said the reward had been doubled to $50 million, and stated that under President Trump’s leadership Maduro will not escape justice. She directed anyone with information to call the number given in the announcement or go online.
Why it matters
The doubled bounty is the administration’s most aggressive public step against Maduro personally, pairing the reward with asset seizures and a narco-terrorism framing of the Venezuelan regime.
Scoreboard watch
Bondi announced a $50 million reward — doubled from its prior level — for information leading to Maduro’s arrest; the reward posting is checkable against the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program.
Sources: The Justice Department, “Attorney General Bondi Announces $50M for arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro”, 2025-08-15 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-08-15). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.