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Police free Venezuelan IEBC personnel who'd been detained at JKIA

IEBC said the foreigner was in the country legally. [File, Standard]

Police have released a Venezuelan national contracted by the IEBC after establishing that the election-related stickers he had at the JKIA on Thursday were genuine material belonging to the electoral agency.

The foreigner had been arrested after police suspected him of impropriety upon landing at the JKIA with IEBC material declared as “personal luggage”.

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