Woman held over 2005 murder of her husband
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July 2, 2013, Tuesday
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A woman accused of hiring someone to kill her wealthy Canadian husband on the US Caribbean island of Puerto Rico has been arrested by police in Spain after being sought for five years in the alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
Moises Quinones, the FBI's spokesman in Puerto Rico, said Aurea Vazquez Rijos was arrested at an airport in Madrid. The Puerto Rican suspect was taken into custody as she was getting off a flight from Italy, where she has lived for years and gave birth to another man's twins.
A US grand jury charged Vazquez in 2008 with offering a man US$3 million to kill her husband, real estate developer Adam Anhang. She denied the charges but refused to cooperate with investigators and fled Puerto Rico for Italy.
Abe Anhang, the victim's father, said authorities told him Vazquez's sister and her former husband had also been charged and arrested in Puerto Rico in connection with his son's killing in 2005.
"We're hopeful that after such a long time that justice will be done," Abe Anhang said from his home in Winnipeg.
After the murder, Vazquez filed a civil suit against her late husband's family, seeking US$1 million in damages and millions more from his estate. A judge in Puerto Rico dismissed her suit.
Anhang, 32, was beaten and stabbed to death in a popular tourist district of the Puerto Rican capital in September 2005 as he walked with Vazquez. He was killed as the couple walked from a restaurant he had bought for her in historic Old San Juan where they discussed their pending divorce.
Moises Quinones, the FBI's spokesman in Puerto Rico, said Aurea Vazquez Rijos was arrested at an airport in Madrid. The Puerto Rican suspect was taken into custody as she was getting off a flight from Italy, where she has lived for years and gave birth to another man's twins.
A US grand jury charged Vazquez in 2008 with offering a man US$3 million to kill her husband, real estate developer Adam Anhang. She denied the charges but refused to cooperate with investigators and fled Puerto Rico for Italy.
Abe Anhang, the victim's father, said authorities told him Vazquez's sister and her former husband had also been charged and arrested in Puerto Rico in connection with his son's killing in 2005.
"We're hopeful that after such a long time that justice will be done," Abe Anhang said from his home in Winnipeg.
After the murder, Vazquez filed a civil suit against her late husband's family, seeking US$1 million in damages and millions more from his estate. A judge in Puerto Rico dismissed her suit.
Anhang, 32, was beaten and stabbed to death in a popular tourist district of the Puerto Rican capital in September 2005 as he walked with Vazquez. He was killed as the couple walked from a restaurant he had bought for her in historic Old San Juan where they discussed their pending divorce.
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