Britain Sanctions Venezuelan President Maduro’s Envoy Saab

Britain Sanctions Venezuelan President Maduro’s Envoy Saab
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an event with the youth of Venezuela's United Socialist Party in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 22, 2020. Miraflores Palace/Handout via Reuters
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LONDON—Britain on Thursday sanctioned one of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s envoys, Alex Saab, in connection with an allegedly corrupt deal to obtain supplies for Maduro’s government-run food subsidy programme.

Saab, a Colombian national, is currently detained in Cape Verde facing extradition to the United States, which accuses him of helping Maduro’s government skirt U.S. sanctions imposed in 2019.