MIAMI: A fugitive businessman accused of acting as a money launderer for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime was extradited Saturday to the United States from Cape Verde, his legal team told AFP.
Venezuela reacted angrily to the extradition, suspending talks with the US-backed opposition in Mexico City. It had hoped to make Saab part of the government delegation to that dialogue on ending the country's political and economic crisis. Saab, who also has Venezuelan nationality and a Venezuelan diplomatic passport, was indicted in July 2019 in Miami for money laundering, and was arrested during a plane stopover in Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa in June 2020.
"Colombia has supported and will continue to support the United States in the investigation of the transnational crime network led by Saab."Cape Verde agreed last month to extradite Saab to the US, despite protests from Venezuela. The speaker of Congress, Jorge Rodriguez, said the government will not attend the fourth round of talks with the opposition due to start Sunday in Mexico City"as a deep expression of our protest against the brutal aggression" against Saab.On Sal, the Cape Verde island from which the plane carrying Saab took off, a state TV correspondent told AFP that a US Justice Department plane left from Amilcar Cabral International Airport in the afternoon.
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