It is a character more than sulphurous who was arrested Friday at the international airport Amilcar Cabral on the island of Sal in Cape Verde, off Senegal: Alex Saab is prosecuted in the United States, Mexico and Colombia for money laundering and embezzlement. The 47-year-old Colombian international trader is said to have laundered more than $ 2 million in the United States through a University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley, who admitted the facts. The latter had met Alex Saab in 2017, through Jorge Luis Hernandez Villazon, alias Boliche, a witness protected by the United States government and a former right-hand man of the drug trafficker paramilitary Salvatore Mancuso.
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Alex Saab landed on the island of Sal on Friday in an airplane from his private fleet. According to the Colombian daily El Tiempo , the FBI and the DEA (the American agency for the fight against drug trafficking) have been monitoring the movements of its planes for months. In particular, they noted many
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