Cape Verde’s Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the Colombian businessman’s extradition Alex Saaballeged front man of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro to the United States, who claims it would be laundered.
(In context: what is the Cedeao tribunal, a court that ruled against the extradition of Saab)
According to the verdict, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Saab’s defense and upheld a lower court’s decision to delivery of the businessman, detained in the African country since June 12 at the request of the United States.
“The judges of the Supreme Court agree to dismiss the appeal and uphold the contested decision for all legal purposes,” that is, the ruling in favor of extradition last year the Court of Appeals of Barlavento, based on the northern island of San Vicente, the ruling said.
(Read here: African court rules against extradition of Saab to the US.
The Supreme Court says “to confirm the judicial authorization for the extradition of the petitioner (Saab) to the United States”. The deliberation of the Supreme Court also took the view that Cape Verde is not affiliated with rulings of the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (Cedeao), who last Monday spoke out against the alleged frontman’s extradition and ordered his immediate release.
According to the Cape Verde Supreme Court, the verdict of the Cedeao court will therefore not be accepted by the judicial authorities of this West African island country.
The position of the Public Prosecution Service has not changed with regard to the extradition process of Mr Álex Saab
The government and a court of the African country have taken delivery of it presumed figurehead, appointed by Venezuela as “special envoy” and “Deputy Permanent Representative” to the African Union, but he appealed to the Supreme Court of
Cape Verde.
Nigerian lawyer Femi Falana, who led Saab’s defense before the Cedeao Court, based in Abuja, Nigeria, said on Monday that that court’s ruling, demanding the detainee’s immediate release, “cannot be ignored” for Cape Verde. .
(In addition: Álex Saab says if extradited he will refuse to cooperate with the United States.
Landim pointed out at the end of last year that since then his country has not been obliged to follow the orders of the African court has not ratified the protocol that gives that body jurisdiction in human rights matters
The court has jurisdiction to hear individual complaints about possible human rights violations since the adoption of the 2005 protocol.
The prosecutor states that the Saab case must follow its legal procedures in
Cape Verde, with the prosecution pending the judicial decision on his extradition to the United States.
At the end of 2020, the Cedeao court already ruled in favor of the house arrest of the alleged figurehead, that he requested health problems in prison and that the Cape Verde authorities – despite the fact that this court has no jurisdiction in this case – reluctantly complied.
EFE
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