Marset opened conversations with the Prosecutor’s Office through his lawyer

Sebastián Marset publicly assumes the leadership of a criminal organization, shows himself as a responsible family head who does not involve his people in dirty business, exposes police and authorities in Bolivia and Paraguay as corrupt, defends his business and opposes legalization the drugs.

He also assures that he did not pay a peso of bribe for the Uruguayan passport that opened doors for him to leave Dubai. But it was not greedy or cautious, but because no one asked him to do so to speed up the process to renew the letter of introduction at each foreign border post.

“I didn’t spend a dollar with the passport, if they had told me ‘you have to pay so much’ to give you the express passport, I would have paid it, but I had my lawyer who helped me and he told me they have to give you the passport give,” said Marset, one of the most wanted fugitives by Interpol, in an interview conducted by journalist Patricia Martín and broadcast this Sunday on the program “Santo y Seña” on Channel 4.

He also said about the issuance of that document: “it was a mistake they made,” without specifying more.

Marset made these statements on television, while in Paraguay they are searching for him in various areas of the interior, because they assume that the interview was recorded in that country.

The drug trafficker gave the interview with care so that the interior of the house was not seen, nor the color of paint on the walls, nor the windows, nor the style of the armchairs.

The recording had been made on Saturday, November 11, after Marset notified the journalist that he was granting her the requested interview, and they took her by plane from Montevideo to Asunción, then a trip by van, two helicopter flights and finally in another van to the house, which had to be entered without a mobile phone, one’s own suitcase, or other personal items.

Marset assumes that he is a drug trafficking leader and that he operates with “codes”, he accuses the police authorities of Bolivia and Paraguay of being corrupt, he says that there are no guarantees in the Justice of these countries, and that they have innocent people imprisoned, he admits that They told him that the Bolivian police were going to arrest him and that was why he was able to escape, and he ironically says that they kept important values ​​from that raid, even though the official records say that there was nothing.

He laughs about the political debate in Uruguay over the granting of his passport when he had been detained in the United Arab Emirates in September 2021. “It is controversial because politics wanted it that way, because for me, since there was a law that protected me, it did not “I had no record or open cases in the country. They should have signed and they gave me the passport and that was the end of it.” “It wasn’t express,” he stated when asked by the journalist.

His family

Marset’s lawyer, Santiago Moratorio, told Channel 4 that he is holding talks with the Prosecutor’s Office to consider what the guarantees are so that the drug trafficker’s relatives can surrender in Uruguay. The lawyer said that he is working on “looking for certain guarantees so that these people can be handed over.”

Marset criticized the actions against people around him: “My brother never did anything for me, I don’t mix my family in my things, nothing to do with it. They say things that they have no way of verifying.”

In the interview he recalled how his beginnings in the criminal world were, for which he had to pay with a prison sentence, and that this helped him learn the good and the bad: “I started as a boy,” he said in memory of his first time in crime. drug microtrafficking.

“In prison you learn a lot. I was there for more than four years. You learn the good and the bad (…) I learned things that took me to where I am now,” said the drug trafficker and highlighted that those things he learned were in matters of “take care”.

Marset defended his role and said how he handles himself in the field. “I’m correct. He who sells doesn’t consume. I don’t like the joke. I don’t consume. I don’t agree with any type of drug consumption,” he told the journalist.

In several sections of the note he said that they attribute actions to him that are not true: “I do not mix my family with my things (…) When they talk about Sebastián Marset they say, they say, they say. I want to see him one day – I hope they never have the opportunity – If they capture me, see, of everything they say, what evidence they have,” he added.

He denied involvement in the murder of the Paraguayan prosecutor: “I didn’t know Marcelo Pecci. I met him when things came out on TV.”

The escape

Regarding how he escaped from Bolivia, he said that they “warned him” and then joked about the actions of the Bolivian Government Minister, Eduardo Del Castillo.

The Uruguayan Marset chose a song by Daddy Yankee and Natti Natasha to use as the background of the interview, a song that says: “I am quilero, I am quilero, my mission: to make money / A boss with the blood of a warrior (…) And I I’m going to give a good life, even if this life is a deception / Good life, I want to give myself a good life / Even if it costs me my life…”