CARACAS Venezuelan authorities have arrested a former oil minister accused of links to a firm controlled by U.S. intelligence services, the public prosecutor's office has announced. Pedro Tellechea, who served as petroleum minister and head of state oil company PDVSA until August, was detained on Oct. 20 along with "his closest collaborators," Attorney General Tarek William Saab said in a statement. They face accusations including "the delivery" of PDVSA's automated control system "to a company

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