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Armando.info's CLAP Food Investigation (Venezuela) Two reports in 2017 showed how Venezuela's subsidised CLAP food programme was supplied at inflated prices, and traced the contracts to businessman Alex Saab and an offshore company holding a $340 million import deal. In a country short of food, this was corruption measured in empty shelves. Saab, who denied wrongdoing, sued the four reporters, Alfredo Meza, Ewald Scharfenberg, Joseph Poliszuk and Roberto Deniz, for defamation, and they left Venezuela in early 2018. The telecoms regulator then barred them from publishing about him. They kept reporting from exile, and US sanctions in 2019 targeted the network they had described.