The transfer of two military ships to the African island country and the sending of gringo agents to that nation’s embassy are some of the moves to prevent a possible escape attempt from the Barranquilla businessman, who is said to be Maduro’s henchman and main character. of this as well.
The case of businessman Alex Saab, the Colombian businessman and noted as the main figure in the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro and arrested in June 2020 in Cape Verde, continues to be one of the most important in the international geopolitics of the United States. This is demonstrated by recent staff movements to control Barranquilla communications and the transit of aircraft and ships through that island country in Africa, to prevent Saab from trying to escape. A fact that, as far as is known, Maduro’s bastard did not try.
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The movement of two military ships and the transfer of US agents to the Cape Verde embassy are part of several movements in that country to prevent any attempt to escape. According to The New York Times, he said a few days ago that the San Jacinto military missile ship had moved to Cape Verde to avoid any attempt to escape from Saab. It is not currently in the area. El Tiempo also stressed that “two friendly European countries support surveillance in the area since June, when Saab was captured in transit to Iran, where it was to sell gasoline, food and medicine, in the face of the pandemic, but also the aggressive gringo blockade” .
Saab was captured by Interpol agents on June 13, 2020, when its plane stopped to refuel at the island’s Amilcar Cabral International Airport. An arrest warrant has been issued against him for alleged money laundering offenses from Washington via Interpol. Saab, born in Barranquilla and of Lebanese descent, is singled out by the United States as the alleged frontman of the Venezuelan president and is related to several companies, including Group Grand Limited (GGL), accused of supplying Maduro to food at a premium. and food for local supply and production committees (CLAP).
Washington also filed charges in July last year against Saab and his right-hand man, Álvaro Enrique Pulido, whom he accuses of laundering up to $ 350 million allegedly defrauded by Venezuela’s exchange control system. For Garzón, “the avalanche of news contrary to Saab makes it difficult to recognize the true origin of this circus process, which is not due to corruption, but to an alleged conspiracy to launder assets; a more than debatable crime that could violate the principle of double criminality in Cape Verde ”.
According to local newspapers, the judicial police in Cape Verde have searched in the last hours the offices of two important directors of the African country who are involved in the complex judicial process that is taking place against Alex Saab. They are Fernando Gil Évora and Carlos Gomes Anjos, two men who in August 2020 (two months after the capture of Saab) traveled to Caracas as alleged emissaries of the Cape Verde government to meet with Nicolás Maduro and talk about the Saab case .
According to Cape Verdean media, computers, mobile phones and documents were confiscated. When the trip took place in August last year, the government of that country removed Gil Évora from the board of directors of the state-owned company Emprofac. At that time, the African authorities confirmed that the decision to dismiss Gil Évora “immediately” was taken unanimously, “as a consequence of the breach of the public administration’s duties and the departure from office.”
Then, the government of the country declared that the Government of Cape Verde did not send anyone with any mission to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela “. As far as is known, the two businessmen arrived in the neighboring country by a private plane through the presidential terminal. Dos Anjos and Fernando Gil Alves Évora. The first is the former director of tourism and transport in Cape Verde, and the second is a millionaire businessman in the pharmaceutical sector.