At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) granted a Uruguayan passport Sebastián Marset Cabrerawho was detained at Dubai airport in October 2021 with a forged Paraguayan passport, according to published various media at the time.
Marset Cabrera has a long criminal record in Uruguay, beginning in 2013 when he went to prison for drug traffic after a major seizure in which 135 kilos of marijuana, 35 grams of cocaine, weapons, high-end vehicles and cash were found.
He also has other records of possession of drugs not for his own consumption, and reception. The 31-year-old Uruguayan was raised in Cerrito de la Victoria and is also required by the Paraguayan Justice for being one of the leaders of a criminal organization from which assets have been seized for more than US$100 million, according to public Search.
Defense says it’s not dangerous
The delivery of the passport by the Uruguayan State was the battle horse of Marset Cabrera’s legal defense: his Emirati lawyer argued that if his own country had given him valid documentation to travel, he did not represent any risk and should not be treated as a relevant offender.
Thus, in February he was released, despite the fact that from Paraguay the National Anti-Drug Secretariat understands that Marset Cabrera is the leader of a regional criminal organization and an Interpol alert weighs on him.
In Asunción, his brother, his partner and his brother-in-law are also required.
In Uruguay, the authorities suspect that it would be related to cocaine shipments that traveled from the Port of Montevideo to destinations in Africa and Europe.
