The Cape Verde’s Supreme Court on Wednesday gave an order authorising the extradition of the Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, to the United States of America.
The verdict is in sharp contrast to Monday’s judgment of the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States on Mr Saab’s arrest, detention and plan by Cape Verdean government to extradite him.
The ECOWAS Court not only ordered the release of Mr Saab on Monday, it also directed the Cape Verdean government to pay him $200,000 as compensation for his “illegal arrest and detention” and “discontinue all proceedings and processes aimed at extraditing the Applicant to the USA”.
The Cape Verdean Supreme Court’s judgment on Wednesday said the country was not legally bound by the regional court’s decisions.
