Natasha Niebieskikwiat
08/04/2021 21:24
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/04/2021 21:24
The Uruguayan Refugee Commission (CORE)
denied the request for
political
refuge
to Fabián "Pepín" Rodríguez Simón, the
former
Macrista
judicial adviser
who is in the neighboring country and whose
extradition is
requested by Judge María Romilda Servini.
The magistrate
accused him
of wanting to harm the group of the Kirchner businessman Cristobal López
The CORE's rejection of the refugee request requested by
Rodríguez Simón
- who claimed to
be a politically persecuted person
in Argentina - occurred a week ago and was kept
strictly secret.
Fabián Rodríguez Simón, at Parlasur.
The decision
has not been made official
but
Clarín was
able to confirm it from judicial sources.
It was actually taken last week before the 90-day deadline for the Commission's pronouncement on the refuge expired.
The CORE is made up of the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry and various agencies, such as UNHCR
Now, the Uruguayan justice must address the extradition request that Servini had made at the time.
In the letter sent to Uruguay on Wednesday afternoon, the decision of Servini de Cubría on the case "Macri Mauricio and others s / Illegal Association: Qte. Carlos Fabián de Sousa and another" is made explicit, in which he requests
"the immediate preventive detention and extradition
of Fabián Jorge Rodríguez Simón, "who last week risked a judicial strategy that failed to avoid being arrested.
Argentina and Uruguay have an extradition treaty, and this would not be their first implementation.
He accuses him of "harassment and financial suffocation towards the companies of the Indalo Group."
The complaint was presented by
Fabián de Sousa
, the businessman who helped Cristobal López to build the Group.
And it is being investigated whether "they have imported cases of corruption" with "functional abuse and diversion of interests" to produce "economic damage both to individuals and to the national patrimony, with the aim of leading to the collapse of the companies that are members of that group for their liquidation and sale at a low price, presumably for the benefit of business interests related to the government and to the detriment of the public interests over which the national collecting body (Federal Administration of Public Revenues) had to ensure ".
Visit to the ambassador
Last May, the Minister of Education of Uruguay,
Pablo da Silveira
, who is also in charge of the Ministry of Justice, visited the Argentine ambassador in Montevideo,
Alberto Iribarne
, to inform him that the administration of Luis Lacalle Pou declared itself
"dispensing"
of the case and that it would not delay the requests of the Argentine justice.
In Montevideo
there is no desire
to mix political tensions with the Alberto Fernández government due to their differences over the future of Mercosur.
Likewise, the entire process has been meeting its deadlines.
It is said that the Uruguayan justice may take up to two years to comply with Servini's request.
But this could be accelerated.
Rodríguez Simón entered Uruguay on December 8, via Fray Bentos.
He started the citizenship procedures and when he was cornered, he asked for political refuge, which has now been denied.
Then he presented two habeas corpus that were rejected.
He argued that he was the victim of
political persecution
and that the Argentine justice sought to arbitrarily detain him.
Meanwhile, the Parlasur, where Simón Rodriguez is a member of the Macrista bench, analyzes his expulsion.
