Kevin Lameck,  a driver at the Venezuelan embassy in Nairobi, came forward in a recent trial and said that the embassy’s diplomatic bag was used to traffic drugs.

He was testifying in the trial of a former diplomat, Dwight Sagaray, who was charged in the killing of the acting Venezuelan ambassador, Olga Fonseca, when he broke the news.

At Wednesdays trial, Lameck testified that the drugs came in during the time of Fonseca’s predecessor and that Sagaray was never allowed to touch the bag. Meanwhile, back in Caracas, a spokeswoman for the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the drug claim.

Fonseca, a 57-year-old diplomat, had been asked to take charge of the Venezuelan Embassy and get rid of all the remaining staff, her elder brother Francisco Fonseca told The Associated Press last year.

The trial will continue on the 2nd of April.

[Source : New York Times]