Canadian Women Accused in Gadhafi Plot Released from Mexican Jail CBC News
go to original April 19, 2013

Cyndy Vanier was released from a Mexican jail early Friday morning. (Timothy Wilson)

Cyndy Vanier, the Canadian woman accused of masterminding a plot to smuggle the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to Mexico, has been released from jail after a tribunal of the Supreme Court of Mexico upheld her appeal.

Vanier had spent much of the last 18 months in a prison on the Mexico-Belize border. Her appeal had raised numerous human rights and constitutional issues in her case.

Vanier's co-accused, Gabriella de Cueto, was also ordered released and she left the prison early Friday morning.

Vanier's husband, Pierre, wept and hugged their lawyer at a hotel nearby when the call from Mexico City finally came in.

"Thank you," Vanier whispered.

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