The figurehead of the narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro will not wait long to face the courts of the United States , a country to which he has been extradited this weekend from Cape Verde . The US Department of Justice has already announced the first appearance schedule for Alex Saab , who has his first appearance in federal court in Miami, Florida on Monday 18. There he will be tried for money laundering and for participating in a bribery strategy to “take advantage of the exchange rate controlled by the Venezuelan government.”
Federal Judge John J. O’Sullivan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida will be in charge of conducting the trial against Alex Saab. As stated in the statement made public by the Department of Justice, on July 25, 2019, Saab and Álvaro Pulido, his partner also of Colombian nationality, were indicted for crimes of “conspiracy to commit money laundering and seven counts of money laundering ”.
The investigation indicates that, since November 2011, Saab and Pulido conspired with other people to launder money from bribes and keep it in bank accounts abroad after passing through the United States.
“As a result of the plan, Saab and Pulido transferred approximately $ 350 million outside of Venezuela, through the United States, to foreign accounts that they owned or controlled,” the text explains.
Saab was detained on June 12, 2020 in Cape Verde at the request of the United States while on a refueling stopover. Finally, the extradition process has been approved, culminating on October 16. Caracas considers this extradition a “kidnapping” and has suspended its participation in the negotiations with the opposition launched in Mexico in protest against it.
As OKDIARIO explained in June 2020, the figurehead of the narco-dictator Maduro faces up to 40 years in prison, as does his partner.
The Caribbean tyrant reacted this weekend to the extradition of his collaborator with a television appearance full of outbursts against the United States and announcing that, as a reaction, he intends to suspend the talks with the opposition that are scheduled to be organized in Mexico soon. Elections are scheduled for the end of this year in Venezuela, but the action of justice on Maduro’s front man have once again revealed his true face and his real intentions, which are none other than to stay in power under the command of the drug dictatorship. Venezuelan.
