The result of the hearing that former Minister Arturo Murillo had in the United States will not be known because migratory judgments do not have much relevance in that country. The former minister has two options to ask for asylum, as he thinks he did; Or be deported to a third country to avoid coming to Bolivia, in this case Croatia, explained the lawyer of the victims of October, Tomas Becker.
“Yeah It is considered a serious crime, generally what happens is that this person is deported, but, it has to have a process (in their country of origin). When he leaves prison or prison he has to go in front of a migration judge who decides whether or not he has deported it. ANDl 99% possibilities is that sport to the person, but, there are exceptionsfor example, if he asks asylum, then we don’t know exactly what can happen, ”said the lawyer.
In May 2021 the former minister was arrested in Miami and Condented to five years in prison accused of money laundering; By US prison mechanisms the former minister was free in June of this year, while the Bolivian government processed its extradition. This Tuesday he had to appear before Judge Jorge Peda who will define the future of Murillo.
According to Becker, Murillo can also be deported to a third country And by nationality it could be sent to Croatia because the former minister himself said that his mother came from that country and his grandparents were Croats. Hence the origin of his maternal name Prijic.
“Historically it does not happen much, but with the Trump government he has sent third countries several times deported, so it is a possibility and the United States government can make this decision. Murillo can ask for this, if it seems that they will deport it, he can say ‘I am from Croatia has to send me to Croatia“And he has to present information about why they have to send it to Croatia,” he added.
Anyway, The former minister will have a month to appeal the judge’s decision And in that period of time to get some resource that allows him to evade justice in Bolivia where he has two processes, one with an executed sentence.
