The 43-year-old DePape told jurors he went to the Pelosis home as part of a bigger plot to end what he viewed as government corruption.

The New York Times on Sunday became the first media organization to name Akavi.for not commenting on that case.

But there are hopes her medical skills might have caused her captors to spare her.It remains the governments view that it would be preferable if the case was not in the public domain.New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said.

Peters said New Zealand had sent a small multi-agency team.Red Cross worker Louisa Akavi.

New Zealands government believed at one point that she may have died.

It is believed she was offered for ransom and may have been used as a human shield.senior partner at the Baring Vostok Capital private equity group.

was taken into custody along with five other people.In late FebruaryBloomberg reportedthat President Vladimir Putin had told businessmen in a closed-door meeting that he hadnt personally approved Calveys arrest.

Criminal law has nothing to do with it.according toa Financial Times report.