The Bogota lawyer investigating the DEA for possible links with the figurehead Álex Saab

The lawyer Adriana Martínez, owner of Vram Holding SA, a small company located on the outskirts of Bogotá, in Cota, Cundinamarca, is being evaluated by the US justice by his alleged links with Álex Saab, accused of being a front man for the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and Álvaro Pulido, affected in the case of the Local Supply and Production Committees (Clap)

The Cundinamarquesa firm is in charge of financial markets, construction of goods and even sale of meat, chicken, beef and pork. According to information provided by the newspaper El Tiempo, there is a lot of probative material that incriminates the Bogota businesswoman with the criminal Saab, especially in 2011 when Saab carried out the construction of cases that today have him behind bars.

The newspaper assures that since Saab made the constitution of the Global Fund, the Bogota businesswoman has criminal ties with the offender. Moreover, in 2014, Saab set up the house factory in Venezuela and According to El Tiempo’s investigation, Adriana Martínez did not change the name of the company (by Expel Management SAS) and submitted a request to MinTransporte so that the company could move heavy cargo.

However, for the moment, no authority has asked the company about the alleged business relationship it had with Saab and the links it had with the individual’s partner, Álvado Pulido (with whom he had a romantic relationship).

Another investigation of the newspaper in question revealed that the same year that Saab created the Global Construction Fund, with a capital of approximately 500 million pesos, the investigated businesswoman opened her company, Vram Holding SA

In fact, in the accounting of Martínez’s company there are businesses that attract attention. One with Suministros Venezolanos Industriales CA (Suvinca), a tourism company of the Maduro dictatorship and the other is related to bank transactions from the Good Central Hong Kong Limited firm in one of the accounts of the company in Bogota. In 2013, it was evidenced that the businesswoman signed a contract with Suvinca for 20 million dollars that were used to purchase supplies to build a sports center in the state of Vargas.

The Superintendency of Companies analyzed the accounting of the Colombian company, Vram Holding SA, information that, according to time, directly links Martínez with Saab’s partner, Alvaro Pulido. The Superintendency evidenced transactions with a company created in Hong Kong: Good Central Hong Kong Limited. There, Pulido’s son, Emanuel Enrique Rubio, appears and according to information from the Armando Info portal, Adrina Martínez’s company benefited from the purchase, at preferential prices, of millions of dollars from the Maduro regime.

The entity assured that after conducting the audit, it showed that the company in Cota could not support 818 million pesos that came from the Hong Kong company. The Superintendency said: “not knowing its origin and reasonableness.” Likewise, the investigation ensures that there are pending accounts and large sums of money that the origin could not be evaluated.

“Based on the relationship I had with Álvaro Pulido, they have tried to censor the businesses of the companies, an unfair situation because they cannot censor them simply because they have been executed with Venezuela,” Adrina Martínez told El Tiempo.

Faced with these statements, the DEA remains widely interested in Martínez’s analysis, since “He is a person of high interest in the Saab y Pulido case”DEA agents tell the newspaper in question who confirmed that the woman is on the Saab organization chart, with four more Colombians.

For now, the Venezuelan authorities are still evaluating whether to extradite Saab to the United States, meanwhile they are considering giving him ‘house for jail’. According to the Cape Verdean authorities, Saab’s extradition to the United States would be resolved in January 2021