{"id":142191,"date":"2026-05-17T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/venezuela-says-it-deported-close-maduro-ally-to-face-judicial-proceedings-in-us\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:15:16","slug":"venezuela-says-it-deported-close-maduro-ally-to-face-judicial-proceedings-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/venezuela-says-it-deported-close-maduro-ally-to-face-judicial-proceedings-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela says it deported close Maduro ally to face judicial proceedings in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miami– <\/span>Venezuela’s government says it has deported one of its close associates Nicolas Maduro<\/a> The businessman faces judicial proceedings in the US less than three years after he was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap.<\/p>\n

The Venezuelan government in a statement did not specify where it had deported Alex Saab, but said its decision was based on multiple ongoing criminal investigations in the US.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reported in February that federal prosecutors have been investigating Saab for a month for his role in an alleged bribery conspiracy involving food import contracts by the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n

Saab, 54, amassed a fortune through Venezuelan government contracts. But the Colombian-born businessman, long described by U.S. officials as Maduro’s “bag man,” has fallen out of favor with the country’s new leadership that took power following. America removes Venezuelan President from office<\/a> And he may be asked to testify against his former mentor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami– Venezuela’s government says it has deported one of its close associates Nicolas Maduro The businessman faces judicial proceedings in the US less than three years after he was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap. The Venezuelan government in a statement did not specify where it had deported Alex Saab,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[7890,2919,3716,417,3420,10291,14813,5568],"class_list":["post-142191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-news","tag-ally","tag-close","tag-deported","tag-face","tag-judicial","tag-maduro","tag-proceedings","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142193,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142191\/revisions\/142193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}