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Mystery of a dead envoy and a missing suspect more than a decade on

By Francis Ontomwa | 22h ago

High Court finds former Venezuela envoy Dwight Sagaray and three Kenyans Ahmed Omindo, Alex Sifuma, and Moses Kiprotich guilty of killing his successor Olga Fonseca in 2012,Kipng'eno Kirui.[Courtesy]

Olga Fonseca Giménez de Pimental, Venezuela’s newly posted ambassador, was murdered on July 27, 2012 in Nairobi.

But Mohammed Ahmed Hassan, the man named by witnesses as a prime architect of the murder, has never been traced.

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