A Venezuelan government official with close ties to former President Nicolas Maduro has been returned to the United States, according to an announcement Saturday from Venezuela’s immigration authority SAIME.
The official, Alex Saab, is a Colombian-Venezuelan businessman who was taken into custody in Caracas in February during a coordinated effort between American and Venezuelan law enforcement, a U.S. law enforcement official reported at the time.
Born in Colombia, Saab had previously been held in Cape Verde starting in 2020 before being brought to the United States to face bribery charges. In 2023, he received clemency as part of an agreement that secured the freedom of Americans who had been held in Venezuela.
