Venezuelan prosecutors say 2 spread false information, impugned banks via Twitter

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    13 July 2010

    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities on Monday accused two people of spreading false rumors about the country's banking system using Twitter.

    Luis Enrique Acosta and Carmen Cecilia Nares are suspected of violating a provision in the country's banking laws prohibiting the dissemination of "false information," the attorney general's office said in a statement.

    They were detained last week for posting online messages "against the Venezuelan financial system," the statement said, and were later arraigned and released by a court pending legal proceedings.