Venezuela's top prosecutor on Monday opened a criminal investigation into opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez and the opposition party's leader Maria Corina Machado, Paralel.Az reports citing DW.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab said the investigation was tied to an open letter the two members of the opposition released earlier Monday.

In the letter, both Gonzalez and Machado called on the armed forces to abandon their support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and to stop repressing demonstrators.