Baltasar Garzon, lawyer of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, looks on before a political rally to speak about his Actua party in Madrid, Spain, April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Medina
(Reuters) - Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon's law firm said on Tuesday it will represent a detained Venezuelan businessman close to President Nicolas Maduro whom the United States is seeking to extradite from Cape Verde on corruption charges.
Alex Saab was arrested in June when a plane he was travelling on landed in the West African island nation. The United States last year charged him with money laundering and sanctioned him for allegedly orchestrating a corruption network that allowed him and Maduro to profit from a state-run food subsidy programme.
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