They arrested a Syrian with a fake passport at the US Embassy and activated the anti-terrorist protocol

There were a few minutes left before 3 p.m. this Wednesday when the counter-terrorism protocol of “Suspicious people” in the American Embassylocated in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires Palermo, due to the presence of two men, father and son, of Syrian nationality, one of whom with a false passport. The older man was arrested for the crime of “falsification of public document”.

The case was brought before the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 6, under the responsibility of Judge Daniel Rafecas, Secretary No. 11 of Paula Sanz. The detained suspect, who has been identified as Marwan Khourywas transferred to the Department of the Federal Police (PFA) Anti-Terrorism Investigation Unit, sources with the investigation told GlobeLiveMedia. And they said that no temper was taken towards the son.

It all happened this afternoon, at the diplomatic headquarters located on Avenida Colombia at 4300, when municipal police officers were alerted by local personnel to two men, father and son, who “were were inside the embassy with apocryphal documentation“, reported the sources of the case.

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In view of this, the counter-terrorism protocol for “suspicious persons” was activated, which was left in charge of the counter-terrorism investigation unit of the Federal Police. Thus, still according to the sources consulted by this media, it was found that the two suspects, of Syrian nationalityThey were traveling in a gray Volkswagen Vento “without legal impediment”, which was parked on Del Libertador and Kennedy avenues.

That’s where the personnel from the PFA explosives division went. check the car, so it was made a preventive blocking of streets on Colombia Avenue, between Sarmiento and Cerviño Avenues. “The results were negative”, said the sources of the case. Given this, the movement restriction was lifted and federal agents left with the detained suspect.

Sources in the case said the alert came after a call from the Deputy Regional Security Attaché for Investigations of the Office of Foreign Investigations of the Diplomatic Security Officebased at the Embassy of the United States of America in Buenos Aires, Marcelo Galarce.

This division, attached to the American Department of State, has as its main mission protection of the integrity of travel documents issued by the US government and the investigation of crimes that may be committed with them.

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According to the case sources, the official reported that in July 2021, the inmate Khouy began the immigrant visa process with his Syrian passport. “Once he left the consulate, he left his documentation and they continued with the administrative procedures typical of any visa. But, while trying to enter the data into the system, it got ‘error’“, they explained.

It wasn’t the only time. According to the sources consulted, “several attempts were made which resulted in the same answer”. We therefore proceeded to check What are the characteristics of original Syrian passports? And with that, they went to analyze the document that Khoury had handed over. It was then that they found “various irregularities”.

This Wednesday, when Khoury showed up at the US Embassy to withdraw the process – which was denied – it was reported that he was “In front of a person of dubious origin, with a false passport or an adulterated passport”. Therefore, the intervention of federal forces was requested.

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