The Russian citizen who is wanted by Interpol and was retained in Ezeiza by the Migration authorities decided to request political asylum before the possibility that a habeas corpus is rejected. Through his lawyer, Liliana Borsiuk, Valentin Kazantsev made a presentation before the National Commission for Refugees (CONARE) that would allow block their expulsion from the country.
Valentin Kazantsev arrived in Argentina on Friday on an Ethiopian Airlines flight. When doing the immigration procedures, the authorities realized that an orange alert from Interpol was weighing on him.
federal judge Louis Armellawhich is subrogating federal court 2 of Lomas de Zamora, resolved 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 on a plane back to Moscow, but Kazantsev later filed a habeas corpus. “The proposal is that he does not want to go to war and has already presented all the corresponding arguments so that they are analyzed and taken into account,” said a judicial source.
The hearing for that habeas corpus was held this morning and now the decision of the Justice is awaited.
However, given the possibility that the habeas corpus will be rejected, Kazantsev’s lawyer went to CONARE through a brief of just one page. According to what this medium was able to learn, on Saturday she sent an email to that body and this Monday she made the formal presentation and communicated it to Judge Armella at the hearing.
The refugee application is processed outside of Justice and must go through the Ministry of Justice, Chancellery, INADI, and the Ministry of the Interior, so it can take up to a yearofficial sources told Infobae.
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Kazantsev has an orange alert from Interpol for a stolen passport. But the lawyers who represent him assure that there is a misunderstanding. “Apparently Kazantsev lost his passport and then found it again, which is why his name was put on an orange alert by Interpol. You have to understand that when you escape from a country at war, you escape with what you have. In the situation he is in, he could travel with an out-of-state role. The Palermo Treaty establishes that a victim cannot be criminally prosecuted and article 32 of the Refugee Treaty establishes that he cannot be returned, ”explained the lawyer Rubilar Pansiuk to Infobae.
And I add: “He has his family here in Argentina. Here is his pregnant wife and his son. As soon as they detained her in Ezeiza, she contacted his family in Russia, who immediately sent her all the documentation to prove that the passport presented to Migrations belongs to him. The authorities cannot under any circumstances send him back to Moscow, even having doubts about the authenticity of his passport. In those cases, people are detained, not deported”.
Kazantsev maintains that he does not want to go to war and that they are recruiting computer programmers, that is their profession, to join the ranks of the Army.
The arrival of this 38-year-old man occurs in the midst of a phenomenon denounced by the English newspaper Guardianwhich put the magnifying glass on a trend that skyrocketed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions to which the citizens of the aggressor country are subject, although for the moment Kazantsev would not be linked to the illegal organizations that charge them USD 35 thousand to pregnant women so that they can give birth in Argentina and get false documentation to achieve dual citizenship.
In 2022, 10,500 Russian pregnant women entered Argentina, of which 5,800 did so in the last three months, reported the National Directorate of Migrations. In the last days the situation resounded again since some women were detained in Ezeiza. After obtaining provisional admission, Judge Armella stated that it was decided “given the state of advanced pregnancy, and for humanitarian reasons”.
The director of Migrations, Florencia Carignano, assured that a judicial investigation was launched to put an end to what she described as “a lucrative business that promises Argentine passports for Russian parents.”
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