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Deal maker for Venezuela's president facing trial in US proclaims innocence

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Caracas, Oct 17 (EFE).- A Colombian businessman retained by Venezuela to help get around the crippling economic sanctions imposed on the oil-rich Andean nation by the United States will not cooperate with the US prosecutors preparing to put him on trial for money laundering, his wife said here Sunday.Camila Fabri appeared before reporters in Caracas to read from a letter written by husband before his extradition to the US from Cape Verde on Saturday. (Camera: IVÁN CÁRDENAS).SHOT LIST: CAMILA FABRI, WIFE OF ALEX SAAB, APPEARS AT AN EVENT IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA. SOUND BITES: CAMILA FABRI, WIFE OF ALEX SAAB (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: I will face the trial with complete dignity and invoking my diplomatic immunity as a servant of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. I have not committed any offense in the United States or in any country and I have no notion of lying to favor the United States against the country that is suffering an inhumane blockade.

Added on the 18/10/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés

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