Uruguay did not grant political asylum to the wife of DMG director
David Murcia, Colombia’s Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez said Wednesday.
“I talked to the Foreign Minister of Uruguay and he told me that they they did not even have a request for this. There is a commission in charge of the revision of requests [for political asylum] and he told me it {the commission] had not even gotten together,” Bermudez told Colombian reporters.
According to the defense lawyer of Johana Ivette Leon
Bermudez, the wife of DMG director David Murcia is now allowed to move freely within the country, receives a special passport and work permit.
Murcia’s
wife was arrested in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo in January after
Colombia requested her extradition. Authorities in the south American
country then denied the request and released Leon Bermudez.
According to the Foreign Minister, Colombia is still talking to Uruguay about the extradition of Leon Bermudez.