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Maduro ally Alex Saab pleads guilty to money laundering in US court
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from EuroNews [en] · South America
As part of the plea agreement, Saab agreed to cooperate with ongoing federal investigations in the United States and to hand over 195 million dollars (some €168.9 million) derived from the corruption scheme.
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