The new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, agrees with the hypothesis that the murder of the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was committed by order of the Uruguayan narco Sebastián Marset, as he made known on his personal Twitter account.
“The investigation into the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci committed by Uruguayan drug trafficker Marset in Colombian territory shows that drug trafficking ceased to be a Colombian-American bilateral problem long ago,” the president said.
“The anti-drug strategy used so far has strengthened rather than weakened the forces of the mafias. The Colombian prosecutor’s office here managed to show investigative efficiency. Congratulations,” he added.
On the other hand, in his tweet, Petro cited the portal article Rebellion. In the text of the aforementioned media it is mentioned that “apparently” Marset has “ties with officials of the government of President Luis Lacalle, who provided him with his passport.”
Marset’s controversial passport
Sebastián Marset, 31 years old, is a target of Interpol for multiple crimes related to drug trafficking. At the beginning of the year he was imprisoned in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) for entering the country with a false passport from Paraguay (from where the warrant for his arrest was issued). However, in February the subject received a Uruguayan passport, with which he was able to regain his freedom.
In accordance with what was indicated in The R Journal the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Guillermo Maciel, the Uruguayan obtained his passport since he did not have a criminal record, nor did he have any cases against him nationally or internationally. He recalled that in that decree after his release, Interpol issued a red alert, for which he has been wanted ever since.
Maciel said that the government is working on a new decree that expands the requirement of judicial records to issue a passport to those acquired both in Uruguay and abroad, after the notorious case of drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, who was granted a Uruguayan passport. official while he was detained in the United Arab Emirates for having wanted to enter with a forged Paraguayan document.
He stressed that the current decree (129/014), which dates from 2014, establishes that background information be requested in Uruguay; in the previous decree (167/993), of the year 1993, only “history” was indicated, also including crimes committed abroad. “When [el decreto de 1993] it says ‘background information’, it does not say in Uruguay or in China or in a specific country, it is everywhere”, he stressed.
What will be done now, according to what he said, is to expand the requisition of crimes at the international level, as well as to demand again not to be deprived of liberty and to lack a border order in any city or country. “So, if the current decree establishes that, this person, when the Ministry of Relations issued and signed the passport and gave it to him, it was done according to Law; Whether we like it or not, it is what the regulations said, ”he advanced about the Marset case.
With respect to the Uruguayan drug trafficker, who was granted a Uruguayan passport while he was detained, Maciel said that in this case, according to the current decree, if he had a record in Uruguay, it was checked. In his case, he was detained in another country, but the regulations did not apply.
“In the year 2021, which was when the passport was issued, at that time there was no open cause nor was there any request for capture, no red alert or international capture by anyone. So, in Uruguay, he had no record and no arrest warrant had reached Uruguay either. For this reason, at that time, the Foreign Ministry —which is the one that signs— issues a passport to someone who is abroad, just as they sign the passport of all those who process it,” explained the deputy minister.
