A delegation of Ecuadorian legislators plans to deliver on Tuesday to the president of Colombia, Ivan duque, a report on the regional ramifications of the Alex Saab case, considered a front man for Nicolás Maduro.
According to a statement issued this Friday by the Political Oversight and Control Commission, the assembly members and members of the same, Fernando Villavicencio, Ana Belén Cordero, Bruno Segovia and Pedro Velasco, will deliver to the Colombian president the report of the so-called “Alex Saab Case and the Sucre System »at the Nariño Palace on Tuesday.
On Wednesday they will provide it to the President of the Senate, Diego Gómez, and the Attorney General of Colombia.
The report contains relevant information not only for Ecuador but for Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and the United States, which has led the Ecuadorian Commission to forward it to the prosecutors and authorities of those countries.
Global Construction Fund
The Commission has compiled information that, according to the statement, would allow the Colombian authorities to complete investigations into the businesses of Alex Saab, his partner Álvaro Pulido and their holding company around Fondo Global de Construcciones (Foglocons).
The investigation of the case deciphered the reasons why Saab appeared as a signatory on behalf of Colombia of a fictitious cooperation agreement with Venezuela, dated November 28, 2011 in the Miraflores Palace, for the construction of prefabricated houses of the Great Mission Housing of Venezuela.
On the Colombian side, no minister or official signed, but an unknown businessman Alex Saab, says the bulletin of the Legislative Commission.
It also points out that then-president Juan Manuel Santos attended the event, “but as an accessory witness” and that the agreement was signed within the framework of Sucre, a compensation system for trade between the ALBA countries, of which Colombia it was not part.
“The agreement between Colombia and Venezuela had the sole objective of allowing the company of Alex Saab and Álvaro Pulido Vargas, Global Construction Fund-Colombia, to benefit from the contract for the exports of prefabricated houses to Venezuela.”
And he adds that “the houses were never exported from Colombia. The target was Ecuador ».
The report mentions that the agreement between Hugo Chávez and Juan Manuel Santos, with Alex Saab as an intermediary, “ended up being a screen for Saab and Pulido to create a twin of Fondo Global-Colombia in Guayaquil, in September 2012”.
The last two are related to the commercialization of prefabricated houses worth 465 million dollars, which were never built in Venezuelan territory.
Alex Saab
The hearing to schedule the trial of Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Alex Saab, considered the front man of Nicolás Maduro and accused in the United States of conspiracy to launder money, was postponed to February 16 due to the explosion of covid-19 in Florida.
Saab, 50, was extradited to the United States on October 16 from Cape Verde, where he was arrested in 2020 following an international arrest warrant requested by the US justice.
