A group of UN rapporteurs on Wednesday demanded that the United States authorities "immediately" release and withdraw all accusations against Venezuelan businessman Alex Saab, detained for alleged money laundering and identified as the president's alleged front man. from Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Saab was arrested in June 2020 while in transit through Cape Verde and, following a request from the United States, he was extradited in October 2021. Since then, he has remained detained awaiting trial, reported the Europa Press news agency. . The businessman was designated a "special envoy" by the Government of Venezuela in April 2018 to carry out official missions in Iran and Russia, with the aim of ensuring humanitarian deliveries, including food and medicine. Caracas defends that the arrest is illegal, since he had immunity as a "special envoy" of the Government. The rapporteurs have expressed their "concern" about the alleged "irregularities" in Saab's arrest, since at that time there was supposedly no arrest warrant or Interpol red notice, issued a posteriori. "In particular, the information we received indicates that at the exact moment of his arrest, while he was in his place at the Amílcar Cabral International Airport, there was no Interpol Red Notice, nor was he presented with an arrest warrant. Instead, both were issued ex post facto," says the United Nations statement on its official website. After the transfer to the United States, most of the charges were dropped and only one for conspiracy to commit money laundering remains. "We deeply regret that, for almost two years since his extradition, Mr. Saab remains detained awaiting trial for alleged conduct that is not considered an international crime and that, therefore, should not have been the subject of extraterritorial or universal jurisdiction" , warn the rapporteur on the negative repercussions of unilateral coercive measures, Alena Douhan, and the independent expert on international order, Livingstone Sewanyana. They even consider that the actions against Saab constitute "a violation of his Human Rights", including the right not to be arbitrarily detained, to the presumption of innocence and to the guarantees of a fair trial, as well as "a violation of the right at a level of life adequate for millions of Venezuelans", since the arrest represented an "abrupt interruption" of the envoy's mission "for the acquisition of essential goods".