Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly said on Mega TV on Tuesday, 30 April 2019 that things were so difficult for President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela last week that he sent his wife Cilia Flores to the Dominican Republic on board a plane (TC-TSR) provided by Russian Putin. He said Maduro is the owner of a US$18 million mansion in Cap Cana where they would be exiled. Afterward, a video would show that Flores was in Venezuela, as she accompanying her husband.
On Friday, 3 May, the director of the National Investigations Department (DNI) Sigfrido Pared Pérez told Dominican press they had not been able to confirm if the wife of President Nicolás Maduro was in the Dominican Republic after the arrival of a Russian airplane to the Punta Cana International Airport on Tuesday. It was reported that the airplane left on Wednesday to Russia. “The airplane arrived at Punta Cana with its crew and departed to its destination,” said the director of the DNI.
A back page in Diario Libre on 6 May 2019 calls for more information on that flight. “Why the mystery? The authorities have to speak out,” headlined the editorial.
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6 May 2019