Foreign Ministry appeals to Greek authorities: "The Israeli you hold is not the person you are looking for"
After the picture was revealed, following which Dudi Ashkenazi was arrested on suspicion of carrying out a drug deal in Peru, the Israeli authorities contacted the Foreign Ministry in Athens and clarified that this was a mistake in identification.
A letter sent from officials at the Foreign Ministry provided data stating that the arrest was indeed incorrect
Yoav Itiel
27/06/2022
Monday, 27 June 2022, 11:42 Updated: 11:56
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In the video: Adv. Nir Jaslowitz, representing Dudi Ashkenazi, ahead of the court hearing in Greece (Walla!)
Foreign Ministry officials sent a letter this morning (Monday) to the Greek Foreign Ministry director general
. Interpol's Red for the arrest of Dudi Ashkenazi in Greece raises suspicions of misidentification, despite the poor quality of the photo. He will appear before the prosecutor's office with his arguments, in order to receive a Greek response to the claim. A court hearing will be held later this week.
Dudi Ashkenazi (Photo: official website, no)
My uncle Ashkenazi was arrested in Greece four days ago when he came with his wife Racheli on vacation on the island of Kos.
Ashkenazi, a 52-year-old resident of Bat Hefer in the Hefer Valley, was arrested under an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol for drug offenses he allegedly committed in Peru in 2012. However, he claims he was not in Peru at the time and claims that it was a terrible mistake. At the same time committing offenses around the world.
His family is now working to prove his innocence.
"I am on my way to Greece, with unequivocal documents proving that an Ashkenazi who is currently detained is detained for no wrong in his palm," his lawyer Jaslovitch said when he left for Ben Gurion Airport. He added, "I call on Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to do everything in his power to release Dudi Ashkenazi immediately from detention and the documents I will have in a short time."
More on Walla!
Like a suspense series: the affair in the Peruvian capital that Interpol links to an Israeli in Greece
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The photo published in the "red message" of Interpol for which Dudi Ashkenazi was arrested (Photo: official website, without)
As reported in Walla !, the event that is at the center of the international affair that predicts an episode of a suspense series, took place in the city of Lima, the capital of Peru, on June 16, 2012. The man wanted by the Peruvians and known as "El Doc" (Spanish, "Doctor") holds dual Azerbaijani citizenship - An Israeli, they claim, is a member of an international criminal organization that smuggled drugs from Peru to Russia, by air.
Somehow, Peru handles this affair about the car appraiser Dudi Ashkenazi who at that time was a driver and manager in the "Dan" cooperative.
Significant reinforcement of the claim that this is an error by Interpol arises from an error by Interpol even in the case of another Israeli bearing the same name.
Dudu Ashkenazi, a 38-year-old employee insurance agent from Kfar Saba, married and the father of two children who went on a roots trip to Morocco in 2015, was detained at a connection in Brussels and passport control informed him that there was a request from Sweden for his extradition.
He was returned to Israel and it turned out that a citizen from Azerbaijan obtained his passport that was stolen in Israel and then tried to assassinate someone in Sweden.
"My name has been added to the Interpol list of people who are barred from entering 24 countries that have signed a joint treaty on the matter," he said.
He further said that to this day he is afraid to leave the country lest he be detained and only because of his name.
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