The head of the National Directorate of Civil Identification (DNIC), Jose Luis Rondandefended the delivery of passport by the State to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marsetwhen he was imprisoned in DUbai (United Arab Emirates) in 2021.
The national director declared this Tuesday before the Attorney General’s Office as a witness and responsible for the body in charge of issuing the document. The judicial case is in charge of the prosecutor for Economic and Complex Crimes, Alejandro Machado.
Stop the hierarchy, the issuance of the document of Sebastian Marset It was done legally, since “there was no criminal record,” and they were obliged to give him the passport. “If we didn’t do it we would have committed illegality,” she said.
Rondan He assured at a press conference that as head of the DNIC he contributed to the judicial case the “technical elements” to clarify the details about the delivery of the document to the drug trafficker, from how “the notebook” is generated to who generates it, “things that do to the daily mechanics of a broadcast passport“he pointed out.
“We came to shed some light on what seems so confusing and is very easy,” he said. Rondanwho explained that in these cases, the documents arrive from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) and the DNIC prints them, after a “prior verification of identity, fingerprints and whether or not they have a criminal record.”
“He had two cases that were closed, you can’t stop him”
Likewise, he pointed out that the DNIC could not stop the issue even if it was intended for a drug trafficker. “We print the passport, then it is the orbit of another ministry (MRREE) that I cannot get involved in. We can stop it if the background certificate comes and tells us that marset He has a record and an open case. He had two cases that were closed, you can’t stop him,” he said.
Finally, he commented that in any case he was not aware of the danger of the person involved, and that for this reason “it was carried out like any other procedure.” “After the car stalls, everyone says where to go, now they are all idiots, but many people didn’t know that,” he concluded sarcastically.
Source: Ambito
