In a legal filing made to a federal court in New York, former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has moved to have the entire criminal case against him thrown out, centering his argument on a core principle of international law: sovereign immunity for sitting heads of state. Maduro’s legal team argues that when the U.S. filed the charges against him, he was still the widely recognized sitting president of Venezuela in the eyes of his own government and a large segment of the international community, a status that bars U.S. courts from exercising jurisdiction over him.
Nicolas Maduro claims presidential immunity and asks New York court to dismiss case
