Bolivia’s government says it considers Orthodox Jewish
businessman Jacob Ostreicher a fugitive after unknown groups helped him flee
across the border into Peru.
Justice Minister Cecilia Allyon said in a press conference
Tuesday she doesn’t know whether the U.S. government played a role in
Ostreicher’s escape. She said Bolivia is alerting Interpol.
Allyon said Ostreicher entered Peru illegally and then
boarded a U.S.-bound plane on Monday.
Ostreicher has yet to appear in public since arriving in the
U.S. Family members initially feared he had been kidnapped.
Ostreicher spent 18 months in a Bolivian jail without
charges on suspicion of money laundering while trying to salvage a rice-growing
venture. He was released a year ago and put under house arrest after actor Sean
Penn asked President Evo Morales to free him.
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