WASHINGTON: The legal team for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has filed a new motion seeking the dismissal of a superseding indictment, according to court documents, reported Sputnik/RIA Novosti.
His lawyers argued that Maduro was entitled to absolute immunity from prosecution in the United States (US), as he was the country's incumbent head of state when he was abducted.
"Mr. Maduro remains entitled to sovereign immunity on two independent grounds: (1) status-based immunity, because he was Venezuela's sitting head of state when the government unlawfully kidnapped him and subjected him to process in this Court; and (2) conduct-based immunity, because the charges are based on official acts Mr. Maduro allegedly performed as a high-ranking Venezuelan government official," the document said.
