(MENAFN) Detained former head of Venezuela's state-run oil giant PDVSA, who was arrested last year as part of anti-corruption purge, has died in state custody.
According to the chief prosecutor's office, Nelson Martinez suffered from a serious and chronic illness that resulted in his death at a medical facility where he was receiving treatment.
His death is expected to shed the light on the conditions in which authorities are holding key opponents and former government officials.
Martinez died two months after a Caracas councilman, Fernando Alban, died after falling from a high-rise police building in what the government classifies a suicide but which the opposition insists was murder.
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