Italian Embassy Has Him
Waiting Outside Like A
Beggar
The now thin and always
controversial Italian
businessman, Mateo
Quintavalle, got a slap
on the face from the
Italian embassy when
they refused to open the
doors and allow him in,
leaving him out on the
sidewalk.
Quintavalle said he was
at the embassy to renew
his passport.
The Italian embassy is
asking him to make an
appointment to be able
to enter the diplomatic
centre. "If I were a
Costa Rican I would have
to have an appointment.
I am not, I am an
Italian and have the
right, as all Italians,
not to be required to
have an appointment",
Quintavalle said outside
the embassy gates
located in San Pedro.
The Italian insists that
he needs his document
and cannot remain in
Costa Rica without
documentation.
Apparently, according to
the Italian, who has
been embroiled in
controversy since his
attempted acquisition of
a soccer players to
begin his own team last
year, the embassy lost
the photos for the
document and now, months
later, still is without
his passport.
"The have me waiting
outside as I were a
beggar", said
Quintavalle.
Quintavalle spent
several months in jail
for fraud, charged by
his American investors
of his lavish spending
in soccer players and
other luxury items
instead of investing
their money in real
estate and tourism
projects in Costa Rica,
and is currently on
conditional release,
waiting for his day in
court. |
