Alex Saab, considered a front man for Maduro, says he will not collaborate with the US justice system.

The Colombian businessman Alex Saab, considered a front man of the illegitimate president Nicolas Maduro and extradited on Saturday to USA accused of laundering, he affirmed that he will face the process with “dignity”, assuring that he has “nothing to collaborate” with that country, according to a letter read this Sunday by his wife.

“I will face the trial with total dignity. I want to make it clear that I have nothing to collaborate with the United States, I have not committed any crime, “said Camilla Fabri, Saab’s wife, reading the document at a rally organized by the Venezuelan authorities in support of Saab, in the center of Caracas, which was attended by about 300 people.

Designated as a front man for Maduro, Saab will appear in a Florida court on Monday, the United States Department of Justice said in a statement.

The 49-year-old businessman and his partner Álvaro Pulido, whose whereabouts are unknown, are accused in the United States of running a vast network that exploited a food subsidy system in Venezuela.

According to Washington, they transferred about $ 350 million out of Venezuela to accounts they controlled in the United States and other countries.

They risk being sentenced to 20 years in prison. Alex Saab, who has Venezuelan nationality and the position of “ambassador”, was indicted in July 2019 in Miami for money laundering and arrested in June 2020 during a plane stopover in Cape Verde, the northwest coast of Africa.

“I declare that I am in full use of my reason, that I am not suicidal, just in case they murder me and say that I committed suicide,” said the Colombian, who many experts believe he knows all the hidden financial gears of Caracas.

Saab can “reveal information about bribes, places where money was moved, surcharges”, he “was the hinge of many of these businesses that the Nicolás Maduro regime begins to carry out with other allied countries,” assured Roberto Deniz, journalist for the Armando site. .info, who has written extensively about the Saab case and who is under an arrest warrant in Venezuela for “incitement to hatred.”

Saab’s wife indicated that she learned “from her sister” of the extradition process from Cape Verde, carried out “behind the backs of the lawyers and behind us.” “We found out from his sister, a guard told his sister, he said simply: ‘They accelerated the extradition.’

The mother of two 1 and 4-year-old girls, Camilla Fabril called the Cape Verdean and US authorities “cowards.” “What bothers America the most is that my husband Alex Saab will never give in. Never! ”He exclaimed.

“He has the strength of truth and innocence,” he said.

The extradition of Saab unleashed the anger of the Maduro government, which “suspended its participation” in the dialogue process it holds with the Venezuelan opposition in Mexico. A next round of negotiations was to begin this Sunday in Mexico City.