Authorities in the Cape Verde islands off West Africa arrested a prominent Colombian businessman accused of corrupt dealings with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela. Alex Saab’s American lawyer confirmed the arrest.
MIAMI — Authorities in Cape Verde have arrested on a U.S. warrant a prominent businessman accused of corrupt dealings with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela.A source familiar with the situation said Saab was detained on the Atlantic Ocean archipelago when his plane was making a refueling stop on a flight between Caracas and Iran. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Federal prosecutors in Miami indicted him and a business partner last year on money laundering charges connected to an alleged bribery scheme to develop low-income housing for the Venezuelan government that was never built. “Saab engaged with Maduro insiders to run a wide-scale corruption network they callously used to exploit Venezuela’s starving population,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the time of the sanctions. “They use food as a form of social control, to reward political supporters and punish opponents, all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes.
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