What did the drug trafficker use the passport for?
The drug trafficker’s passport was printed on November 25, 2021 and the authorities, after signing a power of attorney, handed it over to his lawyer Alexander Balbyso that a relative could take it in person and not in diplomatic bagwhich took a month.
Marset needed the Uruguayan passport to consolidate his version before the Dubai authorities, where he was detained for a false Paraguayan passport, and thus regain his freedom.
With his Uruguayan passport in order and already free, the drug trafficker left Dubai before Interpol issued a warrant for international capture for the drug-trafficking crimes charged to him. Since then he’s on the run.
Interpellation in the Senate of Uruguay
the opponent wide front(FA, from left) announced that on Monday he will question the two ministers of the government of Luis Lacalle Pou.
“Beyond the fact that there is no illegality in the delivery of that passport, which is what the government argues, the truth is that there is an attitude of facilitating the procedures according to the particular interest of a person with an extensive criminal record,” he said. to Télam the senator mario bergaraone of those who prompted the interpellation.
“That puts the Uruguayan state in a position of suspicion of collusionwhich is what we want the ministers to explain to us,” he added.
“It was an unusual procedure, clearly functional to the interest of this person accused of being a drug trafficker and that, although in November of last year he had no open cases, he did have them in 2019 and his passport was denied for that reason. All this deserves a explanation”, underlined the senator from the Broad Front.
The government’s explanation
The formal explanation given by the Minister of the Interior was that the passport was granted because “there was no requirement or red alert by Interpol.”
Nevertheless, Fiorella Pradoat that time Uruguayan consul in United Arab Emiratesasked at least twice to be told how to proceed with the application for the processing and issuance of the passport due to the warnings that had come to him, reported the Uruguayan newspaper El Observador.
In his queries, the response he received from the General Directorate of Consular Affairs and Liaison of the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry was to continue with the process, since it complied with current regulations; That position is the one that the authorities of the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior have maintained until now.
There were also warnings from Ambassador of Uruguay to the United Arab Emirates, Alvaro Cerianiwho recommended acting with caution.
For its part, the Uruguayan newspaper El País publishes that the identification of the “family clan” led by Marset, formed in Paraguay to carry out international drug trafficking and money laundering activities from there, was reported in a Paraguayan intelligence report on March 4. May 2021, six months before the Dubai passport episode.
The assassination of the Paraguayan prosecutor
Last week the new president of Colombia, Gustav Petro, insisted that the Uruguayan Marset was behind the murder.
“The investigation into the murder of the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pucci committed by the Uruguayan drug trafficker Marset in Colombian territory shows that drug trafficking ceased to be a Colombian-American bilateral problem long ago and is today an American and world problem,” Petro wrote on his Twitter account last Friday.
Within the group is also the Uruguayan Federico Santoro Vassalpossessor of a criminal record, dedicated to carrying out “currency exchanges and opening accounts through exchange houses for sending and receiving large sums of money abroad.”
In the last hours, in turn, this man also wanted by Interpol was accused of being in charge of transferring the crew of the Iranian plane Emtrasur that he was in Paraguay and Argentina, and that Uruguay did not let him land.
Source: Ambito
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