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The Nicaraguan government on Friday granted asylum to Colombian Ruben Dario Granda, brother of fugitive FARC “foreign minister” Rodrigo Granda, reported Caracol radio.
A statement released by the Nicaraguan chancellor, Samuel Santos, said “Nicaragua officially accepts the political asylum in the case of the Colombians from the Granda family.”
Granda applied for asylum in the Central American country last Tuesday and has since remained in Bogota’s Nicaraguan embassy awaiting a decision.
Ruben Dario Granda was arrested in April by police on charges of financing guerrilla group the FARC, but was released after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to link him to guerrilla activities.
