The government of USA offered a reward of US $ 10 million for any information leading to the arrest or conviction of Colombian Álvaro Pulido Vargas, alleged partner of Alex Saab, the supposed front man of the illegitimate Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro.
In a statement, the US State Department explained that the reward is related to the accusations filed by the US Justice portfolio against “Pulido and others for money laundering in connection with a bribery plan abroad.”
On Thursday, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida (USA) indicted three Colombians, including Pulido Vargas, and two Venezuelans for their alleged participation in a billions of dollars laundering scheme related to the program. of the Chavista regime Local Supply and Production Committee (CLAP).
According to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office, the five were involved in a plan to launder money from contracts obtained through bribery, in connection with the aforementioned program to provide food and medicine to Venezuela.
Pulido is, on the other hand, included in another court case for money laundering for which he was extradited to the United States from Cape Verde last Saturday.
Maduro’s alleged front man was extradited after a long judicial journey in Cape Verde that dated back to June 12, 2020, when he was detained while his plane was stopping to refuel at the Amílcar Cabral International Airport on the Cape Verdean island of Sal.
Saab, 49, born in the Colombian city of Barranquilla but of Lebanese origin, is accused in the United States of seven counts of laundering and one more of conspiracy to launder since 2019.
The indictment indicates that between November 2011 and at least until September 2015, Saab and Pulido Vargas conspired with others to launder the profits of a corruption network sustained by bribes aimed at obtaining contracts to carry out public projects and fraud to the control system. currency exchange.
As a result of the plan, Saab and Pulido Vargas allegedly transferred from Venezuela, through the United States, approximately US $ 350 million to accounts they owned or controlled in other countries, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
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