Arrested in Cape Verde on INTERPOL notice, Alex Saab will slip back to Caracas

There’s been frantic commentary over the weekend due to arrest last Friday of Alex Saab (Nicolas Maduro’s favourite operator) in Cape Verde. Colombia moved last week against Saab, seizing and freezing some of his assets and placing him on INTERPOL’s blue notice list. But this is Cape Verde, and Alex Saab, so alleged expedite extradition to face U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charges was never going to be a straighforward affair. As of this writing, Saab is still in Cape Verde, not going anywhere in a hurry. It is our belief that Saab will be let go, eventually, back to Caracas. There’s precedent. By Alek Boyd. Full Text -> Infodio

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