Costa Rica Probes Reported Detection of Wanted Veracruz Politician Javier Duarte George Rodriguez - Reuters
go to original January 2, 2017

Photograph of the fugitive Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte in Madrid, along with the poster that locals plastered around the city (EFE/teleSUR)

Following a report from a Mexican newspaper that the politician was in Costa Rica, Security Minister Gustavo Mata said that Javier Duarte, who governed the Gulf state of Veracruz until taking a leave of absence in October, had not been registered entering the country legally.

"If he is detected here in Costa Rica, he will be detained and immediately deported," Mata told a news conference.

Citing intelligence sources, newspaper El Financiero reported that Duarte had traveled to the capitals of Costa Rica and Guatemala. In Costa Rica he was traced last week to a hotel in San Jose, the paper said.

Duarte, who was expelled from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) after the probe into his alleged involvement in organized crime and money laundering, stood down shortly before the end of his six-year term.

Duarte denied any wrongdoing before going underground.

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