Venezuelan diplomat charged with murder of ambassador to Kenya

August 07, 2012

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A Kenyan court on Monday (August 6th) charged a Venezuelan diplomat with the murder of his country's acting ambassador, who was found strangled in her Nairobi home on July 27th, AFP reported.

Dwight Sagaray, first secretary at the embassy, pleaded not guilty to the charges. He will remain in custody, pending an expected application by his lawyers to release him on bail.

He was arrested a day after acting ambassador Olga Fonseca Gimenez, 57, was found dead.

The court also charged in absentia a Kenyan, Mohammed Ahmed, with murder. Police have issued a warrant for his arrest.

As a diplomat, Sagaray should have been eligible for diplomatic immunity, but this was waived before his arrest, Kenyan officials have said.

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