Paraguay extradited to USA to the Ezequiel Santoro Vassallo, he Uruguayan pointed out as the right hand of the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, who remains a fugitive after leaving United Arab Emirates thanks to the provision of a passport by the government.
Santoro Vassallo He was wanted by the US Justice Department for alleged conspiracy to launder money, accusing him of being the supposed financial manager of an organization led by Marset and Miguel Angel Insfran, alias “Rich uncle”.
The 44-year-old Uruguayan left around 2 p.m. on a charter flight from the international airport Silvio Pettirossi, in an operation in which the public prosecutor of International Affairs participated, Manuel Doldan.
The criminal judge specialized in organized crime, Osmar Legal, He explained in a press conference that Santoro’s case “is subject to the possible sentence he may receive in USA”.
He had been arrested in August 2023, when he was required as part of the investigations following the operation “A Ultranza Py”, considered the greatest against the organized crime and the money laundering in the country.
The case of Sebastián Marset and the problems for the government
The novelty is part of the Marset case, which in Uruguay It was a strong shock to the government of Luis Lacalle Pou, who was first affected by the delivery of the passport to the drug trafficker, but then by the leak of chats that gave the former vice chancellor to understand Carolina Ache “lose your cell phone.”
The scandal initially led to the departure of Ache herself, but then led to the expulsion of the foreign minister. Francisco Bustillo, recently reinstated in that portfolio but in another role; the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber; undersecretary Guillermo Maciel; and the presidential advisor Roberto Lafluf.
In his last public appearance, arranged with the program Santo y Seña, which is broadcast on Channel 4, he clarified that he “never” considered surrendering. “That is not in the negotiation and it never was. I asked for them to be fair, but it seems that the politics of all countries do what they want and they are in plot against me,” he said.
In that report, Marset concluded: “The mafia Politics is not fair. Just look for me, I will never give in.”
Source: Ambito
