“They tremble! These are Álex Saab’s secrets,” wrote Colombian journalist Vicky Dávila on his Twitter account spreading the investigation of Semana magazine that tells of sensitive information that Maduro’s front man could use as a negotiating letter in the US, where he was extradited for laundering millions of dollars from the Venezuelan dictatorship.
“You will tremble when we formalize a lawsuit for #Defamation!” Tareck Wlliam Saab, the attorney general of the Chavista regime, threatened on his Twitter account.
Will you tremble when we formalize a lawsuit for #Defamation by lying about a family bond that #NO exists: my father, unfortunately deceased 18 years ago, is called NEMER SAAB and has no relatives in #Colombia… Spreading fake news is #Crime https://t.co/w8h4KKTKDd
– Tarek William Saab (@TarekWiliamSaab) October 23, 2021
What unleashed the ire of the Chavista attorney is that Dávila denounces that there is a striking link between him and the now inmate in the United States. “Saab’s father, Amir Saab Rada, would be the cousin of Nasser Saab, father of Tareck Wlliam Saab, current prosecutor of Venezuela,” said the Colombian journalist.
The prosecutor denies everything and assures that his father, now deceased, has no relatives in Colombia.
In the investigation of Week it ensures that Alex Saab has in his hands a truth that has Nicolás Maduro and his regime trembling, as well as several politicians and businessmen from all the countries with which he had corrupt commercial relations.
“But Saab is today between a rock and a hard place. Although he had initiated collaborative approaches with the DEA while he was detained in Cape Verde, he did not count on the fact that, once extradited, his wife and daughters, ages 2 and 4, would end up trapped in Venezuela and under Maduro’s control, “he warns. Article.
The Colombian magazine affirms that the family of Maduro’s front man is kidnapped: “They became a bargaining chip between Saab and the Miraflores Palace, which demands their silence. The image of Saab humiliated, defeated, scared, dressed in orange, treated as a criminal by federal agents, went around the world this week, while in Caracas they paid tributes to him as a martyr of the revolution and showed images of his wife , Camilla Fabri, crying as if it were a great injustice ”.
“The question now is whether Saab, as a strategy for survival and protection of his family, will remain silent, or if, on the contrary, he will agree to collaborate with the United States justice in exchange for benefits for himself and his closest circle, add the article.
Chavismo, the investigation emphasizes, knows that the secrets that Saab keeps “could be the final blow for Maduro, his henchmen and all those who helped him in his misdeeds for years.”
Maduro’s alleged front man was extradited after a long judicial journey in Cape Verde dating back to June 12, 2020, when he was detained while his plane was stopping to refuel at the Amilcar Cabral International Airport on the Cape Verdean island of Sal.
Saab, 49, born in the Colombian city of Barranquilla but of Lebanese origin, is accused in the United States of seven counts of laundering and one more of conspiracy to launder since 2019.
The indictment indicates that between November 2011 and at least until September 2015, Saab and Pulido Vargas conspired with others to launder the profits of a corruption network sustained by bribes aimed at obtaining contracts to carry out public projects and fraud to the control system currency exchange.
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