The Cape Verdean authorities have already extradited to the United States the Colombian Alex Saab, alleged front man of the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro. This is a move that the Cape Verdean Supreme Court had confirmed in March of this year.
Saab left for the United States this Saturday at 4:50 pm from the Amílcar Cabral International Airport in Cape Verde, as reported by the Cape Verdean newspaper A Nação , citing “well-informed” sources. Saab is traveling on a US Justice Department plane en route to the United States, according to these sources.
Washington accuses Saab of laundering $ 350 million (295 million euros) to pay for Maduro’s corruption through the US financial system. Saab was arrested in June 2020 when he was making a refueling stop on a Cape Verdean island, a country that has approved his extradition to the United States.
Saab has assured that it will not collaborate with the United States Justice or “betray” Maduro. He has declared himself a “victim” and has claimed to be being tortured by the Cape Verdean authorities.
As explained by OKDIARIO in June 2020, according to the judicial investigation, between March 2012 and December 2014 Alex Saab and his partner transferred more than 350 million dollars from Venezuela to the United States from these criminal activities. Income that comes from the manipulation of currencies, in collusion with the Venezuelan monetary authorities, and from the fraudulent and millionaire contracts awarded by the Maduro Government: for the construction of 25,000 homes and for the importation of food from the CLAP boxes that are distributed among families with few resources.
