A postmortem examination is to be carried out today on the body of Michael Dwyer, who was gunned down by Bolivian security services earlier this month.
Mr Dwyer (24) was among three people who were machine-gunned to death in the early hours of April 16th, at the Hotel Las Americas, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
At about 4am, 30 members of an elite police squad swarmed into the hotel and shot the three, who authorities allege, were involved in an international plot to assassinate Mr Morales.
One of those shot dead was a former combatant on the Croatian side in the Balkans war: Eduardo Rózsa Flores, who was of Hungarian and Bolivian nationality and is alleged to have been the group’s leader. The other dead man was Arpad Magyarosi, a Romanian who held Hungarian citizenship,
President Evo Morales has previously rejected demands by Mr Dwyer’s family for an international panel to independently investigate the deaths.
The body of the Tipperary native arrived back in Ireland on Thursday night.
His funeral is expected to take place later in the week, though a family spokesman said details can not be finalised until after the post mortem.
A video reportedly showing Michael Dwyer discussing how to assassinate the Bolivian president was shown to journalists in La Paz on Saturday by the prosecutor who is investigating the shooting dead by police of the three men.
Marcelo Sosa told a press conference that the video shows Mr Dwyer with Eduardo Rózsa Flores,and Arpad Magyarosi discussing a bomb attack against Mr Morales on Lake Titicaca.
The new video, if verified, would constitute the first evidence to back the government’s claims that Mr Dwyer was part of a conspiracy to kill Mr Morales.
The video was supposedly supplied by someone linked to the Rózsa Flores group who is now the prosecutor’s key witness, local reports said.
Journalists who have seen it say the audio quality was very poor and it was not immediately possible to verify the prosecutor’s claims.
The recording is about three minutes in length and appears to have been shot on a mobile phone.
At a government rally on Saturday, Bolivian government ministers renewed their opposition to any international participation in the investigation into the death of Mr Dwyer and the two other men, as demanded by Ireland, Hungary and Croatia.
Mr Morales told supporters at the rally that he had instructed government lawyers to draw up a decree to allow the state to confiscate the assets of anyone found to have helped finance Mr Rózsa Flores’s group while in Bolivia.
The government has claimed that a broad range of opposition figures in Santa Cruz were linked to the Rózsa Flores conspiracy, although so far has failed to provide any evidence to back this up.