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He Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.landed at Maiquetia International Airport, which serves Caracasat 15:55 local time, after the United States released
He Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.landed at Maiquetia International Airport, which serves Caracasat 15:55 local time, after the United States released him after 1,286 days incarcerated in Miami on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Saab arrived in Venezuela after Joe Biden’s government announced its release, a statement immediately confirmed by Nicolas Maduro, who celebrated “with the joy of liberation and return to homeland“, where he arrived accompanied by the President of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) Jorge Rodriguez.
Waiting for him at the airport were his wife Camila Fabry and First Lady Celia Flores, as well as the five children of the released prisoner, whom the government recognizes Venezuelan diplomatdespite the fact that the charge was rejected by the US justice system when it requested his extradition from Cape Verde, where he was detained on June 12, 2020.
According to the indictment, between November 2011 and September 2015, Saab and his right-hand man Alvaro Pulido, who were arrested in April of this year in the Caribbean country on suspicion of corruption, conspired with others to launder and transfer their illicit proceeds. from Venezuela even bank accounts in the United States, so jurisdiction in this case belonged to Washington.
The release came as Venezuela also released about 30 people considered political prisoners, including 10 Americans whose exchange for Saab had been agreed upon by both governments.
As part of the agreement, Venezuela also agreed to extradite to the United States US military contractor Leonard Francis, known as “Fat Leonard”, allegedly responsible for one of the largest corruption scandals in the US military.
They explained that in order to carry out this exchange, Biden had to make “a very difficult decision to offer something that his Venezuelan counterparts were actively pursuing,” namely the release of Saab. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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