• Venezuela: Alex Saab, the elusive Colombian businessman at the service of Nicolás Maduro
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The Colombian Prosecutor's Office yesterday intervened the properties of Alex Saab in Barranquilla and what he found exceeded the rumors. In the coastal city, the train of life of the millionaire businessman who fights from a cell in Cape Verde to avoid being extradited to the United States has been known for years, despite the fact that he had been hiding in Caracas for a couple of years.

The tour of the 3,740-square-meter mansion , video camera in hand, demonstrates the sumptuous life of Nicolás Maduro's front man, whom Colombian President Iván Duque also accuses of being the main financial launderer of the Bolivarian regime.

A luxurious piano greeted Saab guests and gave way to three pools, a spa with massage rooms, marble showers, bars, clay tennis courts, hot tubs, giant kitchens, and everything you need for a great life at your expense. of business with the revolution. All this valued at 28,000 million Colombian pesos (7.6 million dollars) for a total of 34,000 million pesos ( 9.3 million dollars ) adding two houses, an apartment and three garage spaces. The Special Assets Society has taken over its administration.

All of the seized properties were acquired by a front company, financed by Saab's illicit deals with the Bolivarian government . The proximity of the now millionaire, who gave small key chains to his clients in his business beginnings, with the former leftist senator Piedad Córdoba (he appeared as his nephew in Caracas) made him the star contractor of the revolution, which ultimately forged a close bond with Maduro.

Saab appears in all the dark businesses of Chavismo, from importing with huge food premiums to smuggling gold and buying Iranian gasoline in the midst of the pandemic.

The Prosecutor General's Office reported that it has tracked Saab's assets in the coffee country, but that it is also considering extending its investigations to other places with which it has cooperation agreements. In November 2019, the Italian justice system confiscated a property from his current partner , the Italian model Camilla Fabri , 25, with several works of art inside, valued at five million euros.

The Lebanese-born businessman was detained in Cape Verde in June by order of Interpol and at the behest of the United States, who had been pursuing him since he was sanctioned by the Treasury Department. Saab was traveling to Moscow and Iran on one of his private planes.

As soon as the images of the Saab mansion were made public, the democratic opposition took the opportunity to criticize the Maduro government, which not only defends him by the sword but also defines him as a "Bolivarian agent" with diplomatic status, something incompatible with be your main contractor. " Jorge Arreaza (Foreign Minister of Maduro), can you explain how diplomatic official Alex Saab owns this mansion? How much does a revolutionary diplomat earn?" Deputy Freddy Guevara , who has been a refugee at the Chilean Embassy in Caracas since November 2017 , joked .

Despite the fact that the Cape Verdean justice has so far rejected the three requests for freedom, including two habeas corpus, presented by the defense of Saab, he does not give his arm to twist, he has even hired the former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón . The office of someone who was a magistrate of the National Court and a whip for drug traffickers and terrorists in Spain intends to bring the alleged violations committed in his process before international justice.

From the hand of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , Garzón has participated in virtual meetings of the Grupo de Pueblo, an axis created by leftist leaders that gravitates around the figure of the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández .

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