Venezuela foreign minister Nicolás Maduro is counterattacking Sweden in the Venezuelan press over the arrest and deportation of a Swedish citizen to Colombia/
The Swedish Foreign Ministry asked Venezuela in a note why they did not inform Sweden that they had arrested the 54-year-old Swede when he landed at Caracas International Airport last Saturday. News agency TT reports that Maduro, in the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, asked why “one of Interpol's wanted men” was able to travel outside the country.
The Swedish government has still not received an official response, a press secretary for the Swedish Foreign Ministry told TT.
Colombia is accusing the Swede of being the rebel group Farc's European boss and financier. The government in Bogota has been trying to find the man ever since he was granted political asylum in Sweden nearly 20 years ago.
For more: Venezuela slams Sweden over FARC deportee - The Local
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