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前委内瑞拉工业部长周一在迈阿密联邦法院出庭
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据委内瑞拉官员透露，被罢免的委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗的核心盟友已被委内瑞拉遣返美国，将面临联邦指控，其被控策划了一起涉及委内瑞拉国营粮食计划和石油行业的大规模洗钱和贿赂阴谋。
美国南佛罗里达州检察官办公室表示，现年55岁的哥伦比亚裔男子亚历克斯·奈恩·萨博·莫兰曾在马杜罗政权时期担任工业和国家生产部长，周一在迈阿密联邦法院出庭。美国司法部表示，萨博在被证实有罪前应被视为无罪。
检方指控萨博自2015年左右起，实施了长达数年的欺诈计划，目标是本应向贫困委内瑞拉民众提供粮食的人道主义项目。
据司法部透露，他及其同谋随后在绕过美国制裁的情况下，出售了价值数十亿美元的委内瑞拉国有石油。当局称，所得款项通过美国银行账户流转，以掩盖交易痕迹，进一步推进该阴谋。
马杜罗盟友亚历克斯·萨博在美委联合行动中被捕，官员证实
委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（左）与哥伦比亚裔商人亚历克斯·萨博于2024年1月23日在加拉加斯的一场集会上向支持者发表讲话。（加布里埃拉·奥拉/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“亚历克斯·萨博 allegedly 利用美国银行清洗了从旨在帮助穷人的委内瑞拉粮食计划中窃取的数亿美元，以及非法出售委内瑞拉石油所得的赃款，”助理司法部长A·泰森·杜瓦在一份声明中表示。“这是不可接受的。刑事司绝不会允许外国势力利用美国金融体系，将其作为腐败收益的避风港。”
检方称，2015年左右起，萨博及其同伙向委内瑞拉政府官员行贿，以获取与该国CLAP福利计划相关的合同。该计划本应用于购买并向弱势贫困民众分发粮食。
检方指控，该团伙并未交付承诺的粮食供应，而是通过空壳公司、虚假发票和伪造航运记录，从该计划中侵吞数亿美元用于中饱私囊。
财政部盯上被指协助马杜罗规避美国制裁的石油交易商与油轮
商人亚历克斯·萨博于2024年2月20日周二在委内瑞拉加拉加斯的米拉弗洛雷斯宫行走。（卡洛斯·贝塞拉/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
2019年左右，全面的美国制裁重创了委内瑞拉的石油出口，给该国财政造成严重压力，包括无力向萨博及其同伙支付CLAP计划款项。萨博及其合伙人据称利用其与政府官员的腐败关系，获取了委内瑞拉国营石油公司价值数十亿美元的石油资产。
官员们指控该团伙以虚假借口出售石油，并利用所得利润维持和扩大最初的粮食欺诈计划。
萨博及其同伙据称通过美国银行账户清洗被盗资金，以掩盖资金流向，这为美国当局提供了起诉该案的管辖权。
“当非法收益流经美国金融体系时，我国法院拥有管辖权，我们的检察官将采取行动，”美国检察官杰森·A·雷丁·基尼奥内斯在一份声明中表示。
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委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（右）于2024年1月15日在加拉加斯与哥伦比亚裔商人亚历克斯·萨博握手。（费德里科·帕拉/法新社）
萨博曾于2019年在美国被起诉，并于2021年从佛得角被引渡回国。2023年，他在拜登总统主持的囚犯交换中获得赦免，但检方表示，此次新案件涉及的被控行为不在那次赦免范围之内。
萨博的迈阿密律师拒绝向美联社置评。
如果罪名成立，萨博将面临最高20年的联邦监禁。美国政府还要求没收据称通过犯罪活动获得的任何财产或收益。
该案由美国国土安全特别工作组（HSTF）调查，该工作组包括毒品 Enforcement 管理局（DEA）、联邦调查局（FBI）和国土安全调查局（HSI）。
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Maduro ally deported to US over alleged billion-dollar corruption scheme tied to oil, food program
May 18, 2026 10:50pm EDT / Fox News
The former Venezuelan minister of industry appeared in federal court in Miami on Monday
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A close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been deported by Venezuela to the United States, according to Venezuelan officials, to face federal charges accusing him of orchestrating a sweeping money laundering and bribery scheme tied to Venezuela’s state-run food program and oil industry.
Alex Nain Saab Moran, 55, of Colombia, a former minister of industry and national production under the Maduro regime, appeared in federal court in Miami Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. The Justice Department said Saab is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Prosecutors allege Saab led a yearslong scheme beginning around 2015 to defraud a humanitarian program intended to provide food to impoverished Venezuelans.
He and his co-conspirators later allegedly sold billions of dollars’ worth of Venezuelan state-owned oil while circumventing U.S. sanctions, according to the Justice Department. Authorities say the proceeds were routed through U.S. bank accounts in an effort to conceal the transactions and further advance the scheme.
MADURO ALLY ALEX SAAB ARRESTED IN JOINT US-VENEZUELAN OPERATION, OFFICIAL SAYS
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro (L) speaks to supporters next to Colombian-born businessman Alex Saab during a rally in Caracas on January 23, 2024.(GABRIELA ORAA/AFP via Getty Images)
“Alex Saab allegedly used American banks to launder hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a Venezuelan food program meant for the poor and proceeds from the illegal sale of Venezuelan oil,” Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva said in a statement. “This is unacceptable. The Criminal Division will not allow foreign actors to exploit the American financial system and use it as a safe haven for the proceeds of their corruption.”
Beginning around 2015, Saab and his associates allegedly paid bribes to Venezuelan government officials to secure contracts tied to the country’s CLAP welfare program, which was intended to purchase and distribute food to vulnerable and impoverished Venezuelans.
Instead of delivering the promised food supplies, prosecutors allege the group used shell companies, fraudulent invoices and falsified shipping records to embezzle hundreds of millions of dollars from the program for their own personal gain.
TREASURY TARGETS OIL TRADERS, TANKERS ACCUSED OF HELPING MADURO EVADE U.S. SANCTIONS
Businessman Alex Saab walks through Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.(Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Around 2019, as sweeping U.S. sanctions crippled Venezuela’s oil exports and placed severe strain on the country’s finances, including its ability to pay Saab and his associates under the CLAP program, Saab and his partners allegedly exploited their corrupt ties to government officials to gain access to billions of dollars’ worth of oil owned by Venezuela’s state-run oil company.
Officials allege the group sold the oil under false pretenses and used the profits to sustain and expand the original food fraud scheme.
Saab and his associates reportedly laundered the allegedly stolen funds through U.S. bank accounts in an effort to conceal the money trail, giving American authorities jurisdiction to prosecute the case.
“When illicit proceeds are moved through the United States financial system, our courts have jurisdiction and our prosecutors will act,” U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones said in a statement.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) shakes hands with Colombian-born businessman Alex Saab in Caracas on January 15, 2024.(FEDERICO PARRA/AFP)
Saab was previously indicted in the U.S. in 2019 and extradited from Cabo Verde in 2021. He was pardoned by President Biden in 2023 as part of a prisoner swap, though prosecutors say the new case involves alleged conduct not covered by that pardon.
A Miami-based attorney for Saab declined to comment to The Associated Press.
If convicted, Saab faces up to 20 years in federal prison. The government is also seeking forfeiture of any property or proceeds allegedly obtained through the alleged criminal activity.
The case was investigated by a U.S. Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), which includes the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Bonny Chu is a Digital Production Assistant at Fox News Digital.
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