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...Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman and Maduro’s main dealmaker, was extradited to the US in 2021 after being charged with transferring $350mn from Venezuela as part of a scheme to bribe its government officials...
...Saab, a Colombian businessman and ally of Maduro whom US prosecutors accused of siphoning $350mn from Venezuela into US accounts....
...Alex Saab, an international financier for Maduro, was granted clemency on US corruption and money laundering charges and released from jail....
...Micael Johannsson, chief executive of Swedish defence group Saab, said the industry needed to co-operate more closely on supply lines to reduce bottlenecks....
...Talks between the Caracas government and the opposition over a political settlement began in September 2021 but the Maduro government walked out only a month later after key ally Alex Saab was extradited...
...Saab was extradited to the US on money-laundering charges....
...This followed news that Alex Saab, a Venezuelan envoy, had been flown to the US on Saturday from the West African island of Cape Verde, where he was arrested last year....
...The Atlantic island country’s Constitutional Court ruled there was nothing untoward about the detention in June last year of Alex Saab, who was arrested in Cape Verde last year at Washington’s behest....
...An initial round of talks in Mexico produced few concrete results and Maduro’s government has suspended further rounds in protest against the extradition last month to the US of Alex Saab, a Venezuelan government...
...The report, a copy of which was passed to the Financial Times, analysed more than half a million Twitter posts related to Alex Saab, a Colombian citizen accused by Washington of running illicit fuel and...
...Cape Verde’s supreme court ruled on Wednesday that Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman regarded as the chief dealmaker for Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan government, can be extradited to the US....
...“When the Maduro regime wants to deal with Tehran, it doesn’t send the finance minister, it sends Alex Saab.”...
...Alex Saab, arrested for being an alleged fixer for Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro, built a mansion here. The disorder also means the situation through much of the Americas is going to get worse....
...The Treasury on Thursday also imposed measures on seven other people including a prominent Colombian-born businessman, Alex Saab, who it said was the scheme’s mastermind....
...Alicia Vikander has alternated black with white dresses to promote the new Jason Bourne film: she wore an especially flattering white Alex Eagle number in Berlin....
...In defence, UK companies make some components of the Saab Gripen fighter jets that Brazil is acquiring. The rising interest in Brazil followed a decade of rapid Brazilian growth which peaked in 2010....
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