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Last Thursday, the proceedings of the judicial process that will define whether or not Cape Verde extradites the Barranquilla Álex Saab, requested by the United States authorities within a process of money laundering and corruption, connected with the Nicolás Maduro regime, were reactivated.
The defense of the appointed figurehead of Nicolás Maduro, however, continues to denounce alleged judicial and physical abuses suffered by Saab, whom they describe as a special envoy of the Bolivarian government of Venezuela.
In communication to EL TIEMPO, they not only insist that Saab is a victim of torture, but also deny that it has a connection with the 700 million dollars recently frozen by federal agents.
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Despite torture, having cut my arms more than 26 times and given more than 200 blows (…) I will never sign an extradition based on lies and less false statement about Maduro
“The special envoy Álex Saab, assures’ not to have any bank account linked to his name in Liechtenstein, nor $ 700 million”, affirms his defense, a week after United States sources assured EL TIEMPO that said amount is linked to the business of the so-called Clap boxes, whose strings move Saab.
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Even media in Miami later assured that Saab would have voluntarily provided information on two bank accounts in Europe, in order to advance in cooperation agreements to reduce his sentence in the United States.
But Saab’s defense is emphatic that it is false information and that he “has not accepted his extradition either, as has been claimed.”
The Nicolás Maduro regime granted diplomatic status to Álex Saab from Barranquilla, but the Venezuelan Court of Justice in exile assures that this procedure is illegal.
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Bumps and cuts
In the communication they also insist on denouncing brutal acts of torture, which Saab attributed to alleged employees of the United States service.
Both the government of the United States, which had chosen to remain silent, and that of Cape Verde, came out to deny the issue of torture. Even the Prosecutor’s Office of the African island country issued a statement in which it assures that, after an inspection of Saab’s cell, a personal object with which he was mutilating himself was seized.
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But the defense version is different and they attach information attributed directly to Álex Saab: “Despite the torture, having cut my arms more than 26 times and given more than 200 blows all over my body, despite forbidding me the simple Right to have a pen (right that all prisoners have), I will never sign an extradition based on lies, much less a false statement in which I speak about President Maduro and his family.
Baltasar Garzón, a former Spanish judge, leads the Saab defense.
“Álex Saab maintains that ‘President Maduro is a great president, who fights daily despite living an inhuman blockade that other countries would not have resisted for a month,’ and that Venezuela remains firm and supporting him,” says the international legal team of Alex Saab.
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According to sources in Cape Verde, although some assure that the extradition of Saab is imminent, who has been in prison since June 12, this would be defined next October.
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