Russian national with Interpol alert asked to be a political refugee

Valentin Kazantsev arrived in the country last Friday on an Ethiopian Airlines flight and, when carrying out immigration procedures, the airport authorities warned that he had an orange alert from Interpol. They were issued “to alert to an event, person, object or proceeding that poses a serious and imminent danger to public safety.” Before he could be shipped again -a procedure applied to those who are refused entry to Argentina-, the man said he decompensated and while he was being attended a lawyer filed a writ of habeas corpus in his favor. Federal Judge Luis Armella, deputy of the federal court 2 of Lomas de Zamora that intervenes in the Ezeiza airport, ordered that the Russian citizen should leave the country immediately and ordered the Airport Security Police (PSA) to put him on a plane back to Moscow. political refugee, a situation that must be resolved by the agency, composed of representatives of the ministries of Interior, Social Development, Justice, the Foreign Ministry and Inadi, in a process that can be extensive because the man must prove that his life is at risk in his country of origin.

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