Trump Administration Announces $50 Million Reward For Information Leading To Arrest Of Foreign President

The Trump administration is offering a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

“Today, @TheJusticeDept and @StateDept are announcing a $50 MILLION REWARD for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X.

“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like TdA [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Bondi said in a video.

“To date, the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, with nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself,” she continued.

“The DOJ has seized over $700 million of Maduro linked assets, including two private jets, nine vehicles and more. Yet Maduro’s reign of terror continues,” Bondi said.

“He is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world, and a threat to our national security,” she added.

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Today, @TheJusticeDept and @StateDept are announcing a $50 MILLION REWARD for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro. pic.twitter.com/D8LNqjS9yk

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) August 7, 2025

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The attorney general noted that cocaine linked to Maduro’s smuggling scheme “is often laced with fentanyl” and has resulted in “the loss and destruction of countless American lives.”

In March 2020, Maduro, 62, was hit with a slew of federal charges in the Southern District of New York related to his drug trafficking efforts, including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

Following the indictment, President Trump’s first term administration had initially offered a $15 million reward for his capture.

The State Department, under former President Joe Biden, raised the bounty to $25 million on Jan. 10, which the Trump administration doubled on Thursday.

“Nicolás Maduro Moros became president of Venezuela following Hugo Chavez’s death in 2013.  After Maduro declared victory in Venezuela’s deeply flawed 2018 presidential election, the democratically elected National Assembly of Venezuela invoked the Venezuelan constitution and declared that Maduro had usurped power and was not the president of Venezuela.  The United States has not recognized Maduro as the President of Venezuela since 2019,” the U.S. Department of State writes.

“In the July 28, 2024, Venezuelan presidential election, Maduro fraudulently declared himself the victor despite evidence to the contrary.  The United States joined many other countries in refusing to recognize Maduro as the legitimate winner of the July 2024 presidential election,” it continued.

Trump admin announces $50M reward for capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro https://t.co/rGdyneyTxk pic.twitter.com/B3bLcLOwG7

— New York Post (@nypost) August 7, 2025

The U.S. Department of State writes:

Maduro helped manage and ultimately lead the Cartel of the Suns, a Venezuelan drug-trafficking organization comprised of high-ranking Venezuelan officials. As he gained power in Venezuela, Maduro participated in a corrupt and violent narco-terrorism conspiracy with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Maduro negotiated multi-ton shipments of FARC-produced cocaine; directed the Cartel of the Suns to provide military-grade weapons to the FARC; coordinated with narcotics traffickers in Honduras and other countries to facilitate large-scale drug trafficking; and solicited assistance from FARC leadership in training an unsanctioned militia group that functioned, in essence, as an armed forces unit for the Cartel of the Suns.

In March 2020, Maduro was charged in a Southern District of New York federal indictment for narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices in violation of Title 21 U.S.C. §§ 960a and 963, and 18 U.S.C. § 924.