Álex Saab: Cape Verde refuses to send him to house arrest – Investigative Unit

The peremptory order of the West African Court of Justice (CEDEA) and the harsh letter from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza demanding that Álex Saab, the designated figurehead of Nicolás Maduro, be granted home detention.

A Cape Verdean court has just announced that it will not abide by the ruling that ordered this country to be released from prison and given a hotel for prison.

(We invite you to read: Maduro warns Cape Verde for keeping Álex Saab imprisoned)

Aspi was decided by the Barlavento Court of Appeals, based on the island of San Vicente, despite the fact that the ECOWAS recognized Saab’s status as a special envoy of the government of Nicolás Maduro and described as mandatory the order to give him domiciliary by expiration of terms.

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Sources close to Saab told EL TIEMPO that Cape Verde’s argument is that they are not obliged to abide by the ruling.

(Also: Maduro warns Cape Verde for keeping Álex Saab in prison) And so they will express it in a new hearing scheduled for January 10, in which the Saab defense will ask for their freedom.

By that time, the United States expects that Saab, prosecuted in that country for a mega-laundering operation, exceeding 340 million dollars, has already been extradited.

(See here all the articles of the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO) But it is clear that neither the defense of Saab nor Venezuela are going to sit still with the challenge of Cape Verde. An onslaught is already expected, for now, legal and diplomatic.

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