:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/AJ7Q6APNZJCG7NFZXNR2INZCQI.jpeg "The Russian citizen wanted by Interpol applied for political asylum to block his deportation from the country 1")
The Russian citizen wanted by Interpol and held in Ezeiza by the migration authorities decided today to request political asylum before the possibility of a habeas corpus being rejected. Through his lawyer, Liliana Borsiuk, Valentin Kazantsev made the presentation before the National Commission for Refugees (CONARE) to block their expulsion from the country.
Valentin Kazantsev arrived in Argentina on Friday on an Ethiopian Airlines flight. While making the immigration procedures, the authorities realized that an orange alert from Interpol weighed on him.
federal judge Luis Armellewhich subrogates the Federal Court of Lomas de Zamora, decided on Saturday at the last minute that the Russian citizen I had to leave the country immediately and ordered the Airport Security Police (PSA) to put him back on a plane to Moscow, but Kazantsev later filed a habeas corpus petition. “The proposal is that he does not want to go to war and he has already presented all the corresponding arguments for them to be analyzed and taken into account,” said a judicial source.
The habeas corpus hearing was held this morning and now the court decision is awaited.
However, given the possibility of habeas corpus being denied, Kazantsev’s attorney approached CONARE through a one-page brief. The procedure must go through the Ministry of Justice, the Chancellery, INADI and the Ministry of the Interior, so it can take up to a yearofficial sources told GlobeLiveMedia.
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Kazantsev has an orange alert from Interpol for a stolen passport. But the lawyers who represent him assure that there is a misunderstanding. “Apparently Kazantsev lost his passport and then found it, which is why his name has been put on orange alert by Interpol. You must understand that when you flee a country at war, you escape with what you have. In the situation you find yourself in, you could be traveling with an out-of-state role. The Palermo Treaty establishes that a victim cannot be criminally prosecuted and Article 32 of the Refugee Treaty establishes that they cannot be returned,” explained lawyer Rubilar Pansiuk to Infobase.
And I add: “He has his family here in Argentina. Here is his pregnant wife and son. As soon as they detained her in Ezeiza, she contacted her family in Russia, who immediately sent her all the documents proving that the passport presented to Migrations belonged to her. The authorities cannot in any case send him back to Moscow, even if they have doubts about the authenticity of his passport. In these cases, people are detained, not deported”.
The arrival of this 38-year-old man comes in the midst of a phenomenon denounced by the English newspaper The Guardianwhich has put a magnifying glass on a trend that has skyrocketed following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions to which the citizens of the aggressor country are subjected, even if for the moment Kazantsev is not believed to be linked to the illegal organizations who charge them USD 35,000 to pregnant women so that they can give birth in Argentina and obtain false documents to obtain dual citizenship.
In 2022, 10,500 pregnant Russian women entered Argentina, including 5,800 in the past three months, the National Directorate of Migration reported. In recent days, the situation has again resonated since some women have been detained in Ezeiza. After obtaining provisional admission, Judge Armella declared that it was decided “given the advanced state of pregnancy, and for humanitarian reasons”.
The Director of Migrations, Florencia Carignano, assured that a judicial investigation had been opened to put an end to what she described as “a lucrative business which promises Argentine passports to Russian parents”.
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