A Kenyan court has convicted a Venezuelan diplomat of murder for the 2012 killing of Olga Fonseca, who was the country’s acting ambassador to Nairobi and who was found dead in her home in the Kenyan capital.
The prosecution has indicated that Fonseca was killed as part of a power struggle between her and the suspect, Dwight Sagaray, while the judge has rejected the diplomat’s request for the case to be dismissed on the grounds that he has immunity.
The judge recalled that Venezuela had withdrawn his immunity after Sagaray’s murder and defended that he was «duly charged along with other defendants and no longer has diplomatic immunity», according to the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 plot to assassinate the acting ambassador.
Fonseca, 57, was found strangled in bed at her Nairobi residence less than two weeks after arriving in the city following the departure of her predecessor amid allegations of sexual harassment against him by some female employees.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
