After the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Manhattan released a series of classified documents in an apparent accident,[1] Associated Press (AP) published an investigative report with the news on February 1, 2024.

[2] The secret 15-page report made in 2018 was available on the internet for a few hours, until an AP journalist began asking questions and it was taken down.

[2] The operation targeted dozens of people, including Nicolás Maduro[4] and the Minister of Electricity.

[1] As part of the operation, Group 10 of the DEA's Miami Field Division recruited as an informant a professional money launderer accused of stealing $800 million from Venezuela's foreign exchange system through a fraudulent import scheme.

[7] The DEA collected information regarding the former governor of Táchira, José Vielma Mora, and Luis Motta Domínguez, who were later accused by the United States of money laundering linked to bribery.