Cablegate: Visas Viper Submission

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UNCLAS MADRID 001831

SIPDIS

VISAS VIPER

DEPT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/IC/TIPOFF

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL MOTO
NSA, SEVERO)
SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION

1. POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING
NAME AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER
PROCEDURES:

2. NAME: MOTO NSA, SEVERO

- GENDER: MALE
- DPOB: NOV. 6, 1943, ACOCK, EQUATORIAL GUINEA
- POSITIVE

3. DAILY SPANISH PRESS "EL PAIS" REPORTED THAT THE
SPANISH GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING INTO WHETHER TO CONVENE A
INTER-MINISTERIAL COMMISSION ON ASYLUM AND POLITICAL
REFUGEES TO INVESTIGATE AND REVISE THE REFUGEE STATUS
OF THE EXILED LEADER OF THE "PARTIDO DEL PROGRESO DE
GUINEA ECUATORIAL", SEVERO MOTO NSA, AFTER HE MADE A
TRIP ON MARCH 19, 2005 TO CROATIA, WHERE HE REPORTEDLY
MET WITH ANTE JERCIC, A WELL-KNOWN ARMS MAKER AND
DEALER. MOTO MADE SEVERAL DECLARATIONS TO CROATIAN
PRESS MEDIA THAT THE SPANISH SECRET SERVICE WAS BEHIND
"A PLOT TO LIQUIDATE HIM". THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT IS
AT PRESENT WAITING FOR A CROATIAN GOVERNMENT REPORT ON
MOTO'S ACTIVITIES IN ZAGREB. SEVERO MOTO WAS GRANTED
POLITICAL REFUGEE STATUS IN SPAIN IN 1986. SINCE THEN
HE HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING BEHIND SEVERAL COUP
D'ETATS AGAINST PRESENT EQUATORIAL GUINEAN DICTATOR
TEODORO OBIANG, WHO HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY ACCUSED OF
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

MANZANARES

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