Documents in possession of the Public Prosecutor’s Office indicate that through this criminal scheme, documents were arranged at the Uruguayan Consulate in Kiev, Ukraine´s capital.

Birth certificates from Russian citizens were forged in San Javier town, department of Rio Negro so as to grant official documents to Ukrainian citizens, El País newspaper also reported.

The investigation about the former head of presidential security, who operated the criminal gang from the executive headquarters, continues here, so the results are coming to light in dribs and drabs.

Russian Alexey S. or another person under his orders acted as a translator before the Directorate of Civil Identification; notary Álvaro F. prepared the documents, and former security chief Alejandro Astesiano acted as a ‘facilitator’ of those documents to obtain Uruguayan citizenship for Russian citizens.

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