May 2026: TRUMP PRESIDENCY Venezuela deports Saab as government steps up U.S. cooperation

Venezuela deports Saab as government steps up U.S. cooperation
"Venezuela’s government said Alex Saab was deported from the country on Saturday over his alleged involvement in several crimes in the U.S.
Immigration authorities did not provide details on his final destination.
Saab, the Colombian businessman who became one of the former

President Nicolás Maduro’s most influential financial operators, had been held at the infamous El Helicoide prison in Caracas since early February, while Venezuelan and U.S. authorities explored ways to transfer him to the U.S.
The transfer marks the most significant legal cooperation between Caracas and Washington since Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces in January and it could open a new front in corruption cases tied to the former Venezuelan administration. Maduro is currently on trial in a New York court alongside his wife, Cilia Flores.
Saab was first extradited to the U.S. from Cape Verde in 2021 after being charged in Miami with laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through a bribery scheme tied to Venezuelan government contracts. He was released in December 2023 as part of a prisoner swap negotiated by the administration of former President Joe Biden that secured the release of 10 Americans held in Venezuela." Bloomberg