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Globe Live Media, Monday, January 26, 2021
Colombian businessman Alex Saab, alleged front man of the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was transferred from the Sal Regional Prison (Cape Verde), where he was detained, to a private home in the tourist town of Santa María, also in the African country.
With its entry into a domiciliary regime since yesterday at 6:00 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. GMT), the sentence handed down on the 21st by the Barlavento Court of Appeals on the island of São Vicente is fulfilled, which has already authorized the transfer of the accused out of prison .
Saab will stay in a private residence accommodated for this purpose, guarded by members of the Cape Verde National Police and private security guards, as revealed late yesterday by the local media Notícias do Norte.
Days ago, representatives of the Colombian businessman criticized that the judge who is handling the case in Cape Verde did not appear on Friday at a hearing at the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS, a regional bloc to which Cape Verde belongs ), alleging problems derived from the covid-19 pandemic.
“This absence amounts to a clear and deliberate attempt by the Government of Cape Verde to sabotage the hearing and discredit the Tribunal (of ECOWAS),” Saab’s lawyers opined.
At said hearing, according to Saab’s legal team, the possible “immunity and diplomatic inviolability” of the accused as an envoy of the Venezuelan government was going to be studied.
THE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SAAB
Saab, 41, was arrested on June 12, 2020 when the plane in which he was traveling stopped to refuel at the Amilcar Cabral International Airport on the Cape Verdean island of Sal, following a request from the United States through Interpol by alleged money laundering.
The United States considers Saab a “front man” for Maduro and suspected of having laundered – along with his right hand, Álvaro Enrique Pulido – up to 350 million dollars (about 296 million euros) to allegedly pay for the corrupt acts of the Venezuelan president.
Last December the Cape Verdean Justice already denied Saab’s house arrest, and a few weeks later gave the green light for his extradition to the United States, a decision appealed by the defense.

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