Venezuela sues black market currency website in United States

[WorldNews]

By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Central Bank filed a lawsuit on Friday with allegations of "cyber-terrorism" against a U.S.-based website that tracks the OPEC member's currency black market. The DolarToday site has enraged President Nicolas Maduro's government by publishing a rate in Venezuelan bolivars for the greenback far higher than the three official levels under Venezuela's 12-year-long currency controls. The lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, named three Venezuelans in the United States as being behind the site: Gustavo Diaz, Ivan Lozada and Jose Altuve.

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