Michael Martin Dwyer

In August 2013, Toaso and Tadic went on trial on charges of terrorism, along with 37 other suspects. During the trial, both testified that Dwyer was still alive after the raid had ended. Toaso testified that after the raid he was taken to Viru Viru airport, where he recognised Mr Dwyer from a tattoo on his arm and that he was wearing red boxer shorts. Tadic testified that he had heard somebody speaking in English, and that Dwyer was the only member of the group who spoke English.

Dwyer graduated with a BSc in Construction Management from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in 2008. From February to late October he was a Team Leader for the security firm Integrated Risk Management Services (I-RMS) at the controversial (Corrib gas controversy) Shell gas pipeline site in Rossport, County Mayo, despite not holding the required Static Security license. It was there Dwyer reportedly met Tibor Révész and Előd Tóásó.

In November 2008 he travelled to Bolivia from Madrid with three former I-RMS employees. According to La Prensa, the people who travelled with Dwyer on 17 November 2008 were Tibor Révész, Gábor Dudog and Ivan Pistovcak.

In Santa Cruz he joined Eduardo Rózsa-Flores. The media has speculated that the link between Dwyer and Rózsa-Flores was former I-RMS employee Tibor Révész. Revesz is a founding member of the Szekler Legion, a paramilitary group that wants autonomy for Hungarians in Romania. An unsigned posting on the Szekler Legion website in October 2008 called for people to send their CVs to a stated email address if they believed they could assist an unnamed man – now believed to be Flores – in the protection of his “homeland”, Santa Cruz. According to family and friends, Dwyer had traveled to Bolivia to attend a bodyguard course but no evidence for such a course exists.

Michael Dwyer (15 June 1984 – 16 April 2009) was shot dead in 2009 by the Bolivian Police Special Forces in the Las Americas Hotel, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia in disputed circumstances.