Key Financier of Venezuela’s Maduro Regime Arrested

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Authorities in the African place of Cape Verde detained a Colombian businessman preferred in the U.S. on revenue-laundering expenses, in a blow for Venezuela’s authoritarian govt, for whom he has come to be an crucial offer maker.

Alex Saab Morán, traveling in a personal jet, was arrested in the course of a refueling quit on the West African island country en route to Iran, wherever U.S. officers feel the forty eight-12 months-old is serving to reduce discounts to trade Venezuelan gold for Iranian gasoline and other oil goods, in accordance…