Maduro harasses Roberto Deniz, the journalist who uncovered Alex Saab's businesses

The Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office has attacked Roberto Deniz, a reporter for Armando.info, for the revelations about the alleged front man of Nicolás Maduro, the Colombian Alex Saab.

They are making life impossible for Roberto Deniz. The Armando.info journalist denounced this Wednesday that, despite not being in Venezuela since 2018, the Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office has a search warrant to search his family's home.

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This order, says the reporter, is Nicolás Maduro's latest strategy to persecute and harass him for publishing his investigations into the businesses of Alex Saab, the Colombian businessman accused of being the front man of the Venezuelan president. Saab awaits his extradition to the United States from Cape Verde for alleged money laundering.

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Deniz had already said on Tuesday that false accusations have been rained down on Twitter by Chavismo officials for weeks, with the sole objective of having a judicial file opened.

Shortly before his complaint, the state channel VTV reported that the Public Ministry had opened an investigation into the journalist for alleged incitement to hatred, defamation and extortion, although this complaint was not confirmed by the Attorney General's Office.

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Deniz's coverage on Armando.info is accused of relying on "montages." But it is not the first time that the journalist and the medium for which he works have been persecuted by the Government.

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In 2017, when the portal began to disclose Chavismo's dubious contracts for the distribution of the boxes of the Local Supply and Production Committee (CLAP), he had already received threats that led him into exile, along with the editor of Armando.info, Ewal Sharfenberg. By that time, Deniz was already beginning to step on the investigations into Saab for its participation in the irregularities on the importation of food.

The digital and judicial harassment against Deniz and the Armando.info portal has not stopped since then. In September, the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) sent a notification to the journalist and the media in which it was ordered not to spread more information about Saab on the portal.

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As a result of such persecution, the Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights opened a file on the case and granted precautionary measures of protection to the reporter's relatives, after considering that they are in a serious situation and risk to their rights.

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