Lawyers representing Alex Nain Saab Moran, a special envoy for the South American country, have expressed outrage at the failure of the Republic of Cape Verde to release their client after the ECOWAS court of Justice directed that he should be released.
The lawyers in a 5-page document noted that the Court of Justice cut through the prevarication and obfuscation of José Landim and declared that Alex Saab’s arrest and detention were illegal, that he be released immediately, and the extradition process ended.
The lawyers in their document said contrary to claims that a Red Alert was issued for his arrest, there was nothing to prove that assertion.
”The first is a copy of the alleged Interpol Red Notice which Natalino Correia claims to have shown from his mobile phone to Alex Saab. As can be seen, the document is explicit in stating that no arrest warrant has been received by Interpol to support the request for the publication of the Red Notice.”
”The second document is the warrant contained in the Extradition Request sent by the United States on 29 June 2020. Contrary to José Landim’s declaration, it is very clear that the warrant in not in the name of Alex Saab. It does not matter what translations may say, because the only document which counts is the original warrant provided and it is clearly not in the name of Alex Saab,” the document read.
It is their argument that the Prosecutor General of Carpe Verde acted through political expediency in having the envoy arrested and his fundamental human rights abused.
”Contrary to its self-cultivated image of squeaky cleanliness, something is clearly rotten in the State of Cape Verde. José Landim caved into political expediency and his attempts to backstroke away from the mess which he has been an active participant in creating looks set to be shown for what it is by the Constitutional Court. A cover-up can only be sustained for so long.”
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in its judgment delivered on 15 March 2021, declared illegal the arrest and detention of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Nain Saab Moran, ordered his release from further custody, quashed the extradition proceedings against him to the United States and awarded him $200,000 reparation for the violations of his human rights by Cape Verde.
But on April 15, 2021, the Government of Cape Verde filed two motions praying the ECOWAS Court to set aside the Judgment.
Both motions were opposed by the defence team of Alex Saab and in today’s decision, which followed a hearing on 31 May, the ECOWAS Court confirmed their earlier ruling.
The lawyers insisted that the confirmation by the court ended the legal tussle, and that, the Republic of Cape Verde had no more excuses to justify its non-compliance with the binding decisions of the ECOWAS Court.
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By: Rainbowradioonline.com
