The judge of the High Court of the Kenyan capital, Roselyn Korir, indicated that Dwight Sagaray had a hostile relationship with the victim, Olga Fonseca, as both wanted to head the Venezuelan embassy in Kenya
A Kenyan court ordered this Friday, July 14, twenty years in prison for the former Chavista diplomat Dwight Sagaray, along with three Kenyan citizens, for the murder of the interim ambassador of Venezuela Olga Fonseca, found dead in her residence in Nairobi in July 2012. .
His prison sentence will start counting from January 26, when the court determined that the four defendants were guilty of the murder.
Thus, the judge of the High Court of the Kenyan capital, Roselyn Korir, indicated that Sagaray had a hostile relationship with Fonseca, since both wanted to head the Venezuelan embassy in Kenya.
That conflict of interest led Sagaray to assassinate Fonseca, the judge concluded after hearing the statements of about 37 witnesses, many of them embassy workers.
Korir also found Kenyans Ahmed Omindo, Alex Sifuna and Moses Kiprotich guilty of collaborating with the former diplomat in the assassination.
The court determined that the three met up to four times in Nairobi to plan the murder of Fonseca, for which they were able to pay some 3,055 euros.
Also participating in those meetings was another Kenyan citizen well connected in the country’s political circles, Mohamed Ahmed Hassan, a fugitive from justice who was never caught, although his arrest warrant remains in effect.
Sagaray, for his part, knew about those plans, but never tried to stop them and allowed Hassan unrestricted access to the Venezuelan embassy.
Fonseca, 57, replaced the previous Venezuelan ambassador to Kenya, Gerardo Carrillo Silva, in early July 2012, after the diplomat faced allegations of sexual harassment by his domestic staff.
The diplomat strangled to death on July 26 of that year and the Police found her body in her bed at her residence in a wealthy neighborhood of Nairobi with wire cords around her neck, hands and legs.
*Information of EFE via swissinfo
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