The former military contractor engaged in one of the most serious corruption scandals in the U.S. Navy’s history and fled from house arrest in 2022 Gordo Leonard Iker Seisdedos This week, demonstrated con artist Fat Leonard fell into a trap. The Venezuelan authorities led him to believe that he was about to gain his freedom, and the former military contractor, the main actor in one of the biggest corruption scandals in U.S. Navy history, told his mother that he was going to be released and that he would be with her soon. His jailers made him believe this lie to prevent him from challenging a highly charged diplomatic and political decision: an exchange that Venezuela and the United States had secretly negotiated for months , allowing Alex Saab, allegedly President Nicolás Maduro’s front man, to return to Caracas as a hero. Leonard Glenn Francis was part of the package that Washington demanded in exchange for Saab. The rest of the commitments included the expatriation of 10 US citizens, six of whom Joe Biden’s administration said were “unjustly detained” in the Latin American country, 21 Venezuelan opponents to the Chavista regime and the revocation of three arrest warrants against as many dissidents. Known as Fat Leonard in the luxury hotels of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong because of his enormous figure (at 1.87 meters/6′1″ tall, he weighed over 200 kilos/441 pounds), Francis realized that he had been tricked only after it was too late. According to The Washington Post , which revealed the juicy details of his extradition, Fat Leonard believed that he was being released so that he could undergo urgent medical treatment and that he would be free by year’s end. Ultimately, he found himself on the islet of Canoan, which belongs to the republic of St. […]