This week it was learned that the former director of Coexistence and Citizen Security of the Ministry of the Interior had gone to visit the father of Alexander Astesianoin his house in Barra del Chuy, to talk about his son and ex-custodian of Luis Lacalle Pou. As a result of this information, Fossati summoned him as a witness, but after the testimony, he decided to investigate him.
For Pereira, the government seeks to “cover up its acts of corruption” with the situation of the Frente AP sociologist and pointed out that Justice “cannot prevent” one person from meeting with another.
In the last hours, the opposition senator Alexander Sanchez He also questioned the prosecutor’s decision and asked at a press conference: “Doesn’t it seem strange that the first question of the politicians is from the opposition, and not from the government, which is the one with this corruption problem?”
According to the legislator, it is “very rare” that “by sitting down to talk with the father of someone who is in prison, an investigation is hindered.” Thus, he added: “We are going to defend that people in Uruguay can speak freely with anyone. What is a crime that Leal has spoken with Astesiano’s father?
The reasons why Leal will be investigated by Fossati
After Leal’s statement, the prosecutor decided to pass him from witness to being investigated, given the presumption that apparently criminal acts could have been carried out and the possibility that the investigation would be “obstructed.”
After seven minutes of hearing between Leal and the prosecutor —a summons that was given after the same former custodian of President Luis Lacalle Pou, Alejandro Astesiano, declared that the front player had gone to his parents’ house to offer them money—; Fossati insisted that the former official get a lawyer for the next meeting.
For the 12th Shift Flagrancia Prosecutor, the possibility could not be ruled out that Leal’s visit to Astesiano’s parents, in the Brazilian city of Barra do Chuí, did not have an objective or consequence of hindering the investigation into the former custodian.
Source: Ambito
