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World Service,24 Aug 2017,49 mins
Venezuela's Former Chief Prosecutor Accuses President Maduro of Corruption
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Luisa Ortega says Maduro and other senior politicians in Venezuela accepted large bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company. We get the latest from the BBC's Daniel Garcia Marco in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Also in the programme: Samsung has unveiled its latest smartphone, the Note 8. We hear from BBC correspondent Michelle Fleury, who attended the launch in New York. Rob Young is joined throughout the programme by Madhavan Narayanan, a freelance writer in Delhi, and entrepreneur and author August Turak from North Carolina. (Picture: Venezuela's former chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega. Credit: EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images)
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