The president of Nicaragua appoints one of his US-sanctioned advisers as ambassador.

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Orteganamed Mohamed Mohamed Farrara Lashtar, a Libyan nationalized Nicaraguan citizen and sanctioned for USAas its new ambassador in Bahrain, the Official Gazette reported Thursday.

through the presidential agreement 63-2023Ortega appointed Farrara Lashtar, who is advisory minister and Nicaraguan delegate for Africa, the Middle East and Arab countries, in the position of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua before the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain, as a concurrent party based in the State of Kuwait.

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The Nicaraguan Executive informed this appointment to the National Assembly (Parliament)where the Sandinistas have an absolute majority, for its due ratification.

On November 15, 2021, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned the Nicaraguan Public Ministry and nine Nicaraguan government officials, including Farrara Lashtar, in response to the “farce” of national elections on November 7 of that year, in which Ortega was re-elected along with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with her main contenders in prison.

“Lashtar has been designated because of his capacity as an official of the Government of Nicaragua or for having served as an official of the Government of Nicaragua at some point after January 10, 2007″when Ortega returned to power, pointed out the US Department of the Treasuryafter imposing the sanction.

According to documents leaked by WikiLeaksFerrara Lashtar is the nephew of the late Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and had been linked to his uncle’s intelligence services since the 1980s.

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The then US ambassador in Managua, Paul Trivelliwrote at least four dispatches on the case in 2007, when Ortega took power and appointed him secretary and private adviser for international affairs for Nicaragua, with the rank of ambassador.

The 63-year-old Nicaraguan nationalized Libyan arrived in Nicaragua during the first Sandinista government (1979-1990), and in addition to being from Ortega’s circle, he is a prominent businessman and was a substitute deputy for the Sandinistas before the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).

The one identified as Gaddafi’s nephew was manager of the Libyan Arab Nicaraguan Agricultural Company (Anilib), founded in 1983 with Libyan-Nicaraguan capital.

In addition to Kuwait and Bahrainis ambassador of Nicaragua in Tunisia.

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Source: Elcomercio

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