WHY NICOLAS MADURO'S COLOMBIAN MONEY LAUNDERER IS GIVING SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN ANTIGUA SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

This is ALEX NAIN SAAB MORAN, the Colombian money launderer who has been cleaning dirty money for former Venezuelan President NICOLAS MADURO MOROS, and his extensive narcotics trafficking empire, for a very long time. He is currently known to be sitting in an underground prison in Caracas, in the custody of the country's principal intelligence service, while negotiations for his extradition, for a second time, to the United States, continue. Saab faces a Life Sentence in the United States, and his many financial sins, including terrorist financing, could even be stretched to qualify for the Federal Death Penalty. So why are Antigua's Prime Minister, and several members of his Cabinet, unable to sleep these days? When Saab was in his glory, he owned two offshore banks in Antigua, and one in nearby Dominica, and moved the criminal profits of Maduro's organization through local Antiguan banks (e.g. GLOBAL BANK OF COMMERCE), and onwards into Panama and other tax haven jurisdictions. Antigua's leaders awarded him the diplomatic position of Economic Envoy, and issued both diplomatic and CIP passports to him, to facilitate his global laundering activities ( e.g. Malta). Those leaders profited handsomely from their cooperation with Saab.

Saab's last mugshot

Here's the problem, Saab has a long and sordid history of having cooperated with the DEA, and most observers are betting that he will choose to do so again, rather than die in an American prison. Will he give up Maduro and his former Antiguan government partners? That is considered to be a foregone conclusion here in Miami, where a new, wide-ranging indictment is expected against him. Now you know why Antigua's most senior leaders have the type of insomnia that comes from the real possibility that they will ultimately be spending their future in a very uncomfortable place, among some very bad people.