The Secretary of the Presidency explained the exception mechanism that in the midst of a pandemic allowed thousands of people to arrive in the country, with the proper health safeguards, in a regulatory framework that is now repealed. “There were thousands and thousands of admission applications, and many of them were approved, always having the corresponding sanitary safeguards,” Delgado told Diario La R. Yesterday, journalist Antonio Ladra revealed that, among those who entered in mid-2021, Two of the defendants appear in the case of the former head of presidential custody.
In Resolution S/N/021, a group of 43 people.
According to reported On Twitter the journalist and writer Antonio Ladra, two of the exceptions correspond to the surnames Dzhumelia and Kashtanov, who are charged in the case for the passport forgery structure led by Alejandro Astesiano.
In the same resolution, which has Delgado’s signature, other people entered from abroad, each with their respective procedure number. In statements to Diario La R, Delgado stated that the entry of Olesia Dzhumelia and Andrey Kashtanov was authorized —as reported by the journalist— by means of an “administrative signature” that was included “prior justification from the competent body”, when it was in force, in In the midst of the pandemic, the prohibition on entering the country —today no longer in force— that provided for several exceptions to allow the arrival of foreigners while the health emergency was in force due to the coronavirus pandemic and the borders were closed. Those exceptions contemplated a wide repertoire of possibilities, which included everything from causes of family reunification to temporary income for work reasons, he clarified. “There were thousands and thousands of applications for admission, and many of them were approved, always having the corresponding sanitary safeguards,” said Delgado, who recalled that there were requests from various companies, such as UPM or Conaprole. “There were payrolls from companies like UPM, which brought a lot of workers from all over the world to work at the plant and they kept changing; There were also workers for refrigerators, from Conaprole, from various sports clubs, people who came to participate in events, audiovisual producers, shareholders or entrepreneurs in the hotel or gastronomic sector,” the head of the Presidency gave as an example.
“What I did was sign them so that Migrations would later analyze it, always based on a casuistry contemplated by the different decrees” that were established, concluded Delgado.
The resolution regarding the two Russians charged today, dated June 11, 2021, indicated that their entry was authorized “for reasons of urgent and urgent need, which are understood to be justified.”
