At least one American member of the 'CITGO 6' has been released from prison in Venezuela, sources say.
Gustavo Cárdenas, a US citizen detained in Caracas since 2017 who's one of six former oil executives the US refinery CITGO, was released from prison on Tuesday evening, the lawyer and the NGO said.Jorge Alberto Fernandez, a Cuban-US dual citizen detained in Venezuela since February 2021, was also released from prison on Tuesday, his lawyer Maria Alejandra Poleo told CNN.
In recent months, the men were taken to prison from house arrest in apparent retaliation for the US extradition of Alex Saab, a Colombian financier close to Maduro.The group consists of Gustavo Cárdenas, José Ángel Pereira, Jorge Toledo, José Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio José Zambrano. The former executives of CITGO Petroleum Corp. were arrested in 2017 in Caracas on embezzlement charges, which they deny.
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