(FILES) Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) welcomes Colombian businessman Alex Saab at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on December 20, 2023, after the latter was released from the United States, where he was on trial for money laundering. Alvaro Pulido Vargas, a business partner of Colombian entrepreneur Alex Saab, front man for ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, is in the custody of authorities in the United States, the country's attorney general, Todd Blanche, announced on October 11, 2026. Pulido was being prosecuted in Venezuela and had been held in Rodeo 1 prison since April 2023, accused along with 63 other people of embezzling millions from the state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa). (Photo by Federico Parra / AFP via Getty Images)