Caracas: Agents from Venezuela’s Sebin intelligence service on Tuesday raided the offices of opposition leader Juan Guaido while he was in London for talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, an opposition lawmaker said.

“We have just confirmed that Sebin officers are inside the office of president Guaido,” lawmaker Delsa Solorzano told reporters after speaking with security guards at Caracas Zurich Tower.

National Assembly leader Guaido has been recognised as president by the United States and around 50 other countries in his power struggle with socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The tower where the offices are located had been surrounded in the afternoon by hooded and armed Sebin officers dressed in black.

The offices were empty when the search began, the opposition said, adding that several lawmakers had been unable to gain access.