2/17/2022- 6:39 a.m.
Maduro ally was ‘DEA informant’ before arrest — documents reveal
Alex Saab a close ally to the Venezuelan president, cooperated with US drug agencies for nearly a year as a confidential source.
Saab agreed to act as an “active law enforcement source” for the DEA and confessed to paying bribes to Venezuelan authorities.
However, he was deactivated as a source after failing to meet a 30 May 2019 deadline to surrender himself.
Two months later, he was indicted in Miami federal court on charges of siphoning off millions from state contracts to build affordable housing for Venezuela’s govt.
