A Kenyan court finds a former Venezuelan diplomat guilty of the assassination of the ambassador in 2012

Jan. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

A Kenyan court has found a Venezuelan diplomat guilty of murder for the 2012 murder of Olga Fonseca, the country’s acting ambassador in Nairobi who was found dead at her home in the Kenyan capital.

The Prosecutor’s Office has indicated that Fonseca was murdered in the framework of a power struggle between her and the suspect, Dwight Sagaray, while the judge has rejected the diplomat’s request to dismiss the case because he has immunity.

The judge recalled that Venezuela withdrew his immunity after the murder of Sagaray and has defended that he was “duly charged along with other defendants and no longer has diplomatic immunity,” according to the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Standard’.

Sagaray, who was first secretary at the Venezuelan Embassy in Nairobi, has been found guilty along with three other Kenyans accused of being part of the plan to assassinate the acting ambassador.

Fonseca, 57, was found strangled to death in bed at her Nairobi residence less than two weeks after arriving in the city after her predecessor’s departure amid allegations of sexual harassment against him by some female employees.