Defense Minister Diego Molano assured late yesterday, after his arrest at the Mexico City airport was made public, that “Interpol Colombia is not empowered or has access to modify, clarify or cancel the information published by other countries “.
Granda was going to attend in Mexico, together with several senior officials from the Comunes party, which emerged from the demobilization of the FARC, the international seminar “The Parties and a New Society” to be held on October 21, 22 and 23, invited by the Labor Party (PT).
For this he had authorization from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the transitional justice where he is being tried for war crimes, to leave the country. The former member of the FARC secretariat, who participated in the peace negotiations, assured today that he went personally to Interpol, before his trip, and that “absolutely nothing” appeared to him (in terms of arrest warrants).
However, several media revealed today that the Police Criminal Investigation and Interpol Directorate (Dijín) had notified Granda on September 28 that it did have the red notice, requested by Paraguay, active for three criminal charges.
Paraguay requires him for his alleged involvement in advising or collaborating with the kidnapping of Cecilia Cubas, daughter of former Paraguayan president Raúl Cubas (1998-1999), who appeared lifeless on February 16, 2005, buried in a house on the outskirts of Asunción after five months of searching and after having paid his family some $ 300,000 to his kidnappers for their release, according to a book by journalist Andrés Colmán on the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) guerrilla.
This Wednesday, the Foreign Minister of Paraguay, Euclides Acevedo, confirmed this Wednesday that the justice of his country maintains the arrest warrant against Granda and said that he will ask Mexico for explanations about his release, after Interpol briefly detained him. “The Foreign Ministry, through its legal department, sent to the Mexican embassy all the documents that support his arrest warrant in Paraguay,” he said.