The United States estimates that after the Cape Verdean Court of Appeals approved the extradition of Alex Saab, Nicolás Maduro’s ringleader, it is a matter of 20 days for him to be handed over to the DEA.
But the accounts of Saab and its defense are different and, in fact, in communication with THE WEATHER ensure that the information that a US plane. UU. He came to this country to collect -confirmed by federal agents- it is false and sensationalist.
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This is the job in which Jorge Arreaza announces that Alex Saab is a plenipotentiary ambassador.
Indeed, in a statement they just issued, they warn that extradition is literally frozen.
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“I want to remind you that Alex Saab has been illegally detained in Cape Verde for more than 200 days. This arrest is not only illegal because Mr. Saab is a diplomat who was exercising, and continues to exercise, an official function. The arrest is also illegal because it was issued on June 12 in accordance with an arrest warrant issued by the state without the corresponding Interpol Red Circular. The Red Notice was hastily issued the next day, June 13, “the defense notes.
Nicolás Maduro tries to give diplomatic immunity to Saab by appointing a plenipotentiary ambassador.
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And after recalling that Saab was a ‘special envoy’ from Venezuela and is now a permanent and plenipotentiary ambassador to Africa, they insist that his arrest is illegal, “On the basis that the period between the U.S. extradition request and now, when the extradition process is far from exhausted, has exceeded the 80-day constitutional limit by more than two and a half times“.
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And they reiterate that the West African Court of Justice (ECOWAS) “the sentences are binding and not subject to appeal,” it ordered that the extradition proceedings be suspended, pending its ruling on the legality of Saab’s arrest.
Therefore, they say that Cape Verde’s claim that it is not subject to the Court’s rulings is false. And they regret that credibility is given to reports that indicate that EE. UU. He has already sent a plane to take Saab out of Cape Verde, which they describe as “highly detrimental to legal proceedings today under judgment to the Supreme Court of Cape Verde and the Court of Justice of the ECOWAS Community “.
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The US response. UU.
U.S. sources have reiterated the interest of his justice to obtain the extradition of Saab, whom they consider a key figure in the Maduro regime.
In fact, they anticipated to EL TEMPS that in addition to a legal and military board, the judiciary will move again in the coming weeks with the expansion of the investigations, which will include new names in the file.
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While Saab’s defense says the extradition process “is far from exhausting,” for the United States it is on the final stretch.
The Supreme Court, which in the past asked for clarification on the process, has the file in its hands and will be able to decide whether to ratify the decision of the Court of Appeals to extradite the card from the regime or release it. .
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