A Kenyan court found a Venezuelan diplomat Dwight Sagaray guilty on Wednesday of killing the Latin American country’s acting ambassador ten years ago at her official house in Nairobi, the nation’s capital.
The first secretary of the Venezuelan embassy, Sagaray, was convicted of killing Olga Fonseca on July 27, 2012.
Along with Sagaray, three other Kenyan nationals were prosecuted. They were all found guilty. Following Venezuela‘s lifting of the diplomat’s diplomatic immunity, he was put on trial for the murder.
Less than two weeks after beginning her new position in Nairobi on July 15, Ms. Fonseca, 57, passed away.
Although Kenyan officials claimed at the time that several staff members at the residency were dissatisfied after being fired by Ms. Fonseca, it remains unknown why she was killed.
Sagaray could be tried for the murder because he did not enjoy diplomatic immunity after Venezuela waived it following the crime, the court ruled.
Fonseca was found strangled in her bedroom less than two weeks into her posting to Nairobi, which followed the abrupt departure of the previous ambassador after he was accused by his domestic staff of sexual harassment.