Saadi Gadhafi, a son of the deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, tried to travel secretly to Mexico with false documents, Mexico’s interior minister said Wednesday.

Three people have been implicated in the plot — a Canadian, a Dane and a Mexican, said the minister, Alejandro Poire.

Saadi Gadhafi had offered to negotiate an end to the war with the rebels in Libya months ago, after his father’s troops lost control of Tripoli, but he later seemed to change his mind.

He was last known to be in Niger, the landlocked West African nation bordering Libya.

Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou had reaffirmed his country’s decision to grant asylum to Saadi Gadhafi, saying the son of Libya’s long-time ruler should be allowed to stay and be treated just like other “Libyan refugees.” Libya’s National Transitional Council has blasted that stance.

(Source: CNN)