In the case of the mega network of false passport sales from the Executive Tower, the Russian, alexey slivaev He is one of the four defendants along with the former presidential custodian, Alejandro Astesiano and his wife, Patricia Medina, and the notary public Álvaro Fernández.
In one of the lines of investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office, led by Gabriela Fossati, is looking for who were the Russians who received altered or falsified documents, and what reasons they had for receiving them.
From the Punta de Rieles prison, where Slivaev is being held preventively, he said that he is only “a manager” of documents and that has nothing to do with it.
In a public letter, he said that he does know Astesiano, Fernández and Medina, but denies having committed crimes, while targeting Fossati because he did not want it “listen”.
He continued shooting at the Uruguayan Consulate in Moscow, stating that passports are being falsified in that entity. “for years” and that “it may be that the government is hiding the real culprits.” To “understand everything”, he continued, Fossati must look at who signed the passports when delivering them, and he also pointed to the Civil Registry.
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In the six-page letter, which was translated from Russian to Spanish by the defendant’s family, he also claims to know his compatriot Fedor Bogorodskiy, who has lived in Uruguay for fifteen years. The latter was the translator at the wedding that took place in a supermarket in Chuy, officiated by the Colorado mayor Eduardo Calabuig.
The two who got married were Olesia Dzhumelia and Andrey Kashtanov, who received authorization to enter Uruguay from the Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, Álvaro Delgado, in the midst of the pandemic.
Slivaev denies having a relationship with Olesia Dzhumelia and Andrey Kashtanov, of whom Astesiano said he had processed their respective IDs.
