• Alex Saab, the elusive Colombian businessman at the service of Nicolás Maduro
  • Venezuela.USA captures in Africa Alex Saab, the main figurehead of Nicolás Maduro

Chavismo loses its first check in Cape Verde . Colombian businessman Alex Saab will remain in provisional prison after the decision of the local Supreme Court, which has not accepted the habeas corpus for "illegal imprisonment" required by his lawyers to achieve his release. The United States demands the deportation of the figurehead of Nicolás Maduro and the main international operator of the revolution.

Venezuela has recognized that it is a "Bolivarian agent". The Cape Verdean police arrested Saab 12 days ago when the Interpol red alert for money laundering from Chavismo was activated. Both the US and Colombia have been chasing him for months .

Saab's local defenders are supported by a legal team dispatched from Caracas. The Russian and Cuban allies are also working to free the key character in the financial framework created by the hierarchs of the regime.

The businessman, who gave away cheap key chains to his clients in his local Barranquilla , has made hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to his dirty business with Chavismo, from the construction of cheap houses to the purchase of food in Mexico to sell it at a premium to himself. state, which distributes it in the famous CLAP boxes of cheap food . Saab has also been instrumental in smuggling gold to Turkey and Arab countries, buying gasoline for gold with Iran, and parallel business with Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) .

In statements to the Efe Agency of defense lawyer José Manuel Pinto , the detainee has "immunity from criminal jurisdiction and had the right to personal inviolability as a special envoy from Venezuela in transit through Cape Verde."

The government of Maduro announced after the arrest, considered one of the strongest blows that Chavismo has received during his term, that Saab is nationalized Venezuelan and that he has diplomatic status , although local media have certified that there is no documentation on both situations.

Cape Verde and the US do not have an extradition treaty, but the African government assures that it will respond to the United Nations conventions on money laundering and drug trafficking. Washington accuses Saab of laundering $ 350 million through the exchange control imposed by the Chavista government during the year.

The provisional prison ruling also does not guarantee that the US will finally obtain extradition in a case reminiscent of the old days of the Cold War , with Russians and Americans facing off in an African country.

In diplomatic circles in Caracas, it is assured that Saab continues to move its millions with impunity between Switzerland and Great Britain . Local media have also warned that the African prison where Saab is incarcerated is not of high security and that several evasions have even occurred previously.

Saab's name also came up last week during Chavismo's judicial attack against the two main opposition parties, from which it has taken away acronyms and headquarters, by handing them over to fugitives close to the government .

The new leaders of the centrist First Justice, with the deputy José Brito at the head, are precisely the parliamentarians expelled upon learning of their economic connection with the now revolutionary "agent". A group of these deputies traveled to Europe last year to defend the withdrawal of sanctions against their boss.

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