The Colombian businessman would have been a partner Álvaro Pulido, arrested for corruption in Venezuela / Photo: TalCual
The Free Alex Saab movement, which defends the Colombian businessman detained in the United States for alleged money laundering, denied this Friday that he appears in investigations for corruption in the oil industry and Venezuelan state companies.
“Since these processes began, this campaign has been attacked, we are slandered, insulted, shamelessly and irrationally lied regarding ‘partners, partners, friends’ who by dint of unsubstantiated statements relate to the diplomat Alex Saab. This only because This is how some ‘journalist’ or media outlet that lives on extortion and alleged humanitarian aid reports it,” said a statement released by Saab’s wife, Camilla Fabri.
The same, arises following the Venezuelan authorities presented the Colombian businessman Álvaro Pulido Vargas, a Saab partner and requested by the United States justice, around midnight on Thursday, in a court, for allegedly being related to a corruption plot.
“Total and full support for the actions carried out by the president, when he begins and leads the fight once morest corruption,” the message said.
The Information Minister, Freddy Ñañez, assured that Pulido Vargas was a “financial operator” related to former Chavista deputy Hugbel Roa, whose parliamentary immunity was lifted by Parliament in March following his arrest for being part of a corruption plot.
Pulido Vargas and Saab are accused by the United States justice system of transferring from Venezuela, through the North American country, approximately 350 million dollars to accounts that they owned or controlled in other countries. The accusation indicates that, between 2011 and at least 2015, both businessmen conspired with others to launder the proceeds of a corruption network supported by bribes aimed at obtaining contracts to carry out public projects and fraud in the foreign exchange control system in Venezuela.
Caracas / Web Writing
