Fernando Villavicencio, Ana Belén Cordero, Bruno Segovia and Pedro Velasco will travel to Colombia to deliver the report ‘Alex Saab Case and the Sucre System’.
A delegation of assembly members plans to deliver on Tuesday -January 11, 2022- to the President of Colombia, Ivan duque, a report on the regional ramifications of the case Alex Saab, considered front man of Nicolás Maduro.
According to 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 ‘Case Alex Saab and the Sucre System’ in the Nariño Palace.
On Wednesday -January 12- they will provide it to the President of the Senate, Diego Gómez, and the Attorney General of Colombia.
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– The Ecuador Hour (@lahoraecuador) December 30, 2021
Alex Saab’s ‘crown’
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 refer it to the prosecutors and authorities of those countries.
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 Alvaro Pulido and its holding company around Fondo Global de Construcciones (Foglocons).
The investigation of the case unraveled the reasons why Saab was listed as a signatory in Colombia name of a fictitious cooperation agreement with Venezuela, dated November 28, 2011 at the Miraflores Palace, for the construction of prefabricated houses for the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela.
On the Colombian side, he did not sign any minister or official, but an unknown businessman Alex Saab, specifies the bulletin of the Legislative Commission.
It also points out that the 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 was not a party.
«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 ».
Agreement between Hugo Chávez and Juan Manuel Saltos
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 Polished will 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.
The hearing to schedule the trial of Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Alex Saab, considered the front man of the president of Venezuela, and accused in the United States of conspiracy to launder money, he was postponed to the next February 16th due to the explosion of the COVID-19 in Florida.
Saab, 50, he was extradited to the United States. October 16 from Cape Verde, where he was arrested in 2020 following an international arrest warrant requested by the US justice. EFE
