Federal sources They confirmed for the first time to the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO that Group 10 of the DEA has just taken the Colombian Álvaro Pulido Vargas, partner and friend of Álex Saab, from a prison in Caracas (Venezuela) to Florida (United States).
Pulido was already in prison for embezzling PDVSA. But in a court in South Florida he has two proceedings for money laundering and fraud through Clap Boxes, among other behaviors.
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‘Two are missing’
The State Department offers a $10 million reward for Álvaro Pulido. Photo:State Department
Pulido, who also uses the name Germán Enrique Rubio Salas, appears among those investigated in the corporate network through which regime money was moved.
In that framework Two other people appear who would be extracted from Venezuela in the coming days, with the approval of the transitional government of Delcy Rodríguez.
In March 2023, Pulido had already been captured in Venezuela in the scandal over the looting of the state oil company PDVSA. But the process against Saab, who is collaborating with the United States justice system, reactivated the two cases against him, where his son also appears: Germán Enrique Rubio Salas.
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The charges against Pulido
The first images of the deportation of Álex Saab. Below, with the dictator Nicolás Maduro. Photo:Private file
Since 2013, Saab and his partner Pulido were already in the DEA’s sights. At that time contracts were being traced with Suvinca, for 20 million dollars, for the supply of material used in the construction of a sports center located in the state of Vargas (Venezuela).
The Investigative Unit of El TIEMPO had access to documents and established that among the transactions that entangle Pulido there are several with a company created in Hong Kong: Good Central Hong Kong Limited.
In databases, that signature appears in the name of Emanuel Enrique Rubio. It is already proven that this firm benefited from the purchase, at preferential prices, of millions of dollars from the Maduro regime.
Besides, Pulido has been sanctioned for corruption in the United States (2019) and the United Kingdom (2021), with assets frozen.
Your transfer to a prison in Florida is registered 5 months after the arrival in that country of Saab, who has just pleaded guilty to corruption charges and is collaborating with justice.
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