Alejandro Balbilawyer for the Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marsetdeclared this Monday before the Prosecutor’s Office of Alejandro Machadowho is dedicated to investigating possible irregularities in the delivery of the passport when he was imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“I told him in detail what I did for Marset’s passport in the free exercise of my profession,” said Balbi upon leaving the Prosecutor’s Office and added that his “action was within the regulations.” “I am oblivious to political issues,” he stressed.
“There is only one coincidence in all those who came to testify and that is that the passport was legal,” said the defense lawyer, who did not accept questions from the journalists who were at the scene.
The case of Marset’s passport and a recent presentation of audios generated a stir throughout the political arc that ended with the resignation of four government officials: the former chancellor, Francisco Bustillo; the former Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber; the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Guillermo Maciel and the advisor to the president Luis Lacalle Pou, Roberto Lafluf.
Balbi is the defense lawyer of the drug trafficker, who is currently a fugitive from justice and is believed to be still in Bolivia. The lawyer will testify this Monday before the Prosecutor’s Office for Economic and Complex Crimes led by Alejandro Machado.
Last Friday, Bustillo was the last of the leaders to testify and was the one who pointed out the former vice chancellor, Carolina Ache, as the person who had contact with Marset’s lawyer and the person responsible for having asked the leader for the passport for the drug trafficker who He was still detained in the UAE.
According to Bustillo, Ache hid the meeting or contact with Balbi from him. However, the former chancellor told El País that this Monday he will present a letter to the prosecutor in which he will try to rectify his statement by establishing that he “mistakenly” referred to a passport when he actually meant “diplomatic bag.”
In the United Arab Emirates, Uruguayan diplomats did not recommend handing over the passport
Uruguayan diplomats in UAE They recommended in 2021 not to give him the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker and a fugitive from Justice at an international level, Sebastian Marset.
The Uruguayan ambassador to the UAE, Alvaro Cerianiand the former consul in Dubai and current deputy consul of Uruguay in San Francisco (USA), Fiorella Pradothey had suggested waiting for Sebastian Marset came out of jail to grant him the Uruguayan document, this being rejected by the authorities in Montevideo.
“My opinion was, let’s wait for him to be released. What use would his passport be if he is deprived of liberty?” he said. Meadow in the internal investigation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE), adding that “unless an ulterior motive is sought, thanks to that passport, (Sebastian Marset) will be able to be released.”
For its part, Ceriani considered it prudent “to wait for the trial he was conducting to be completed (Sebastian) marset“, this was already “common sense” because the drug trafficker was in prison for carrying false Paraguayan documentation.
Source: Ambito
