00:00And the Minister of the Interior Justice San Pizzo Zalcabello clarified that the extradited individual, Alex Saab, does not possess
00:07Venezuelan citizenship, which is why he was handed over to U.S. authorities on alleged charges of money laundering.
00:17Alex Saab is not Venezuelan. He is not. He is a Colombian citizen and has always presented a Venezuelan ID
00:26card that is not legal.
00:31There is no record of it with the CIME, which is the agency that issues Venezuelan ID cards. The document
00:39is supposedly dated in 2004.
00:45To make it clear, due to the months on when Alex Saab first arrived in Venezuela, he presented a fraudulent
00:55ID card and used it to gain access to certain things.
01:00When we looked into it and conducted a detailed investigation, there was no record in the same certifying that this
01:08person is Venezuelan.
01:10That is why we made the decision to deport him from Venezuela. He is not a Venezuelan citizen. He is
01:19a foreign national.
01:20He is not a Venezuelan citizen.
01:23un ciudadano extranjero.
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