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Cuba has decided that Spanish politician Angel Carromero should stay in custody over the death of well-known dissident Oswaldo Paya in a car crash, BBC reported.

Mr Carromero was driving a rental car that crashed against a tree as it hit an unpaved stretch of road in eastern Cuba on 22 July.

A preliminary investigation blamed the driver for the crash.

A Cuban prosecutor has up to six months to decide whether to press charges against Mr Carromero.

An article published in the official newspaper, Granma, says he "has been accused of the charge of homicide while driving a vehicle on public roads."

Mr Carromero and Swedish politician Jens Aron Modig survived the crash that claimed the lives of Mr Paya and 30-year-old Cuban human rights campaigner Harold Cepero.

Mr Paya's family rejected the official findings and suggested that the car might have been pushed off the road.

But on Monday Mr Carromero appeared in a pre-recorded video released by the Cuban authorities admitting that he had lost control of the car and denying that a second vehicle had been involved in the crash.

In the video, he also asked the international community to focus on getting him out of Cuba and he made a pledge for the accident not to be used "for political ends."

Mr Modig appeared in a media conference in Havana and said he had no memory of a second car hitting them.