Last year, Saab was extradited for allegedly siphoning $350 million out of Venezuela via the United States.
U.S. prosecutors say Saab, a Colombia-born businessman who was extradited last year from Cape Verde, siphoned around $350 million out of Venezuela via the United States as part of a scheme that involved bribing Venezuelan government officials.
"We remand the case to the district court to consider in the first instance whether Saab Moran is a foreign diplomat and immune from prosecution," wrote judges of the 11th circuit. That hands the decision on Saab's diplomatic status to Judge Robert Scola of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where the money laundering charge was filed.
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