Russian citizen wanted by Interpol has received provisional documents pending asylum process

The Russian citizen who arrived in the country with an Interpol orange alert was released last night after the Migration Directorate granted him the provisional landing, a figure provided for by local legislation. Valentin Kazantsev has received provisional documents and now has 48 hours to start the asylum procedure before the National Commission for Refugees (CONARE).

Kazantsev arrived in the country last Friday with his 33-week-pregnant wife and son on an Ethiopian Airlines flight. Before completing immigration procedures, he was detained because Interpol issued an orange alert.

federal judge Luis Armellewhich subrogates the Federal Court 2 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 then filed a complaint habeas corpus through his lawyer.

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This presentation was finally rejected yesterday by Armella, after an opinion from the prosecutor Cecilia Incardona, the same one who had led to the habeas corpus of four pregnant women who had been detained in Ezeiza.

In the case of the pregnant women, Migration was unable to justify why entry was not allowed, nor was it possible to establish that these particular women were related to the case being investigated by a network that provides Argentinian documents to citizens of that country.

Before learning of this court ruling, Kazantsev’s lawyer made a presentation to the National Commission for Refugees (CONARE) which allowed block their expulsion from the country. In reality, as this medium was able to learn, he sent an email to this body on Saturday and on Monday he made the formal presentation and communicated it to Judge Armella during the habeas corpus hearing.

The process of obtaining refugee status can take up to a year as it must go through the Ministry of Justice, the Chancellery, INADI and the Ministry of the Interior. However, after the court decision, Migrations yesterday granted him the temporary disembarkation for humanitarian reasonsmight know GlobeLiveMedia.

“This provisional disembarkation will in no way imply entry into the Argentine Republic. If during the procedure for solving the admission or rejection of the foreigner, it becomes necessary for him to leave the limits of the airport, station or place of arrival, the authority of the immigration can keep the documentation of the first and grant him a provisional authorization of permanence which will not imply the legal entry into the country, until the reasons which founded it cease, ”says the local legislation.

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Kazantsev has an orange alert from Interpol for a stolen passport. But lawyers representing him say that was a mistake. “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 he finds himself in, he could travel with the role of stateless person,” explained lawyer Rubilar Pansiuk to this media.

And I add: “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.

Kazantsev maintained that he left his country because he did not want to go to war in Ukraine. He also said he was at risk because the army recruits computer scientists, it’s their job.

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 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 sparked controversy since some women have been detained in Ezeiza.

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