The Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay upheld the decision not to grant the refugee request requested by Fabián Rodríguez Simón, former judicial operator of Mauricio Macri.
The decision adopted enables
the procedures related to the request for extradition of the Argentine justice system to continue.
Judge María Servini asked to investigate him in the case for alleged harassment against businessman K Cristobal López and his companies.
In this way, the decision of the 1st Turn Specialized Criminal Lawyer for Organized Crime, Adriana Chamsarián, who last year had rejected the refugee request made by Rodríguez Simón, was finalized.
In 2021, the Uruguayan judge had requested the opinion of the Refugee Commission (CORE), which also did not accept "Pepin's" request.
Rodríguez Simón, a Parlasur legislator and former adviser to President Mauricio Macri,
has been in Uruguay since December 2020,
when he traveled while being investigated in a legal case for alleged pressure on the Indalo Group.
This file analyzes "the alleged existence of acts carried out by public officials, from the highest levels of the National Executive Power or at the request of those, who through harassment
and financial drowning
towards the companies of the Indalo Group, would have imported cases of corruption ".
In May 2021, Judge María Servini declared Rodríguez Simón in absentia and
ordered his national and international capture
, in addition to ordering the general inhibition of his assets.
With this Tuesday's ruling, it is enabled to continue with the procedures related to the extradition of the former Macrista adviser.
In Uruguay there are two files that involve Rodríguez Simón: the extradition process and the piece that was formed later to process the refugee application.
The extradition process is on hold "until the firm resolution on the refugee status invoked," as judge Chamsarián ruled in June 2021.
In his defense, the former judicial operator asserted that in Uruguay the recognition of refugee status suspends the extradition process, "so he understands that it is an autonomous process, main and prior to the latter, since the sentence that is dictated is of a definitive nature, which leads to admitting the appeal of cassation".
Rodriguez Simon, came to this instance of complaint appealing that decision of rejection to grant him refugee status.
Among other aspects, "Pepín" alleged that "the guarantees of due process and the right to defense were violated, while the accused was denied the right to offer and produce evidence."
On the merits of the matter, he insisted that the judge "should have been granted refugee status, since she understands that all the requirements of the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees have been met."
In this sense, he expressed "that the well-founded fears of being persecuted were duly accredited."
None of these arguments was admitted by the oriental justice.