Weeks after a conviction was issued, the Astesian case is far from disappearing from the public debate in Uruguay. Prosecutor audio leaks Gabriela Fossati as well as statements during judicial hearings revealed their distrust of the government of Luis Lacalle Pou and the police commanders regarding the investigation into the criminal network led by Alejandro Astesiano, former chief of presidential custodians.
“Here justice does not matter to anyone, to neither side. Some want to cover everything; note that those who are mentioned are still the ones who direct those who have to help me, ”Fossati said in an audio sent to the journalist Carlos Pelaez and that it was disclosed by the Legitimate Defense program.
In the conversation, the prosecutor, who again asked the court prosecutor yesterday, Juan Gomez, who relieved her of the case against the former presidential custodian, assured that “the names of all the people who are directing the organizations that one has to investigate appear; In reality, those who should be concerned about the obvious loopholes in their institutions are only concerned with trying to cover it up”. The investigation will not come to an end “because the stones are permanent”he stressed.
Fossati also criticized the position of the opponent Broad Front (FA). It should be remembered that last week he criminally denounced his president, Fernando Pereirafor defamation. “On the other side are those who want blood, but for political interest,” he evaluated the attitude of the left regarding the Astesiano case.
Mistrust in police cooperation
Prosecutor Gabriela Fossati was also categorical about her distrust of the information she received from the Police during the hearings with the senators of the Broad Front, Charles Carrera and Mario Bergarawhom Astesiano would have spied on at the request of the company Vertical Skies.
At the beginning of last December, Carrera told Fossati that he understood the difficulties he had to investigate, since in all the illegal activities carried out by Astesiano (from fake passports to accessing confidential police information) they found involved people in “key positions” in the government structurereported the newspaper El País.
“That is a problem. And the other problem has been the quality of the information that I initially received from the Police, until I was able to have my own analysis and context. That information was not of the best quality”, she admitted and added: “every information that I receive, I have it in a sieve blanket. As a condition, I have to verify it.”
Both the addresses of Complex Crimes and of Intelligence They depend on the police command. Its directors are currently being investigated for providing confidential information to Alejandro Astesiano, including that of teachers and students of the 41st high school in Montevideo.
The Broad Front demands explanations from Lacalle Pou
The Monitoring Commission of the Astesiano case of the Broad Front adopted a resolution on Monday that requires the government to respond to the prosecutor’s statements on the case of the former presidential custodian.
“It is information that alarmed us due to the content of the evaluation that it makes of the possibilities of investigating. In this resolution that we adopted today we are demanding that the Executive Power Give an answer to these statements that appear in the audio“, informed the senator of the FA, Liliam Kechichian.
“A few hours ago we heard the president say that justice had spoken and that therefore the issue was over. He placed the responsibility for the leaks on two media outlets that later took it upon himself to say that they were from the left, in that sense we believe that the The Executive Power will have to respond in these hours,” he insisted.
In the statement, the Broad Front describes the Astesiano case as “the most important corruption plot that Uruguay is going through since the democratic recovery” and highlights that Fossati’s expressions “call into question the collaboration to which the Executive Power is obliged as an assistant to the Prosecutor’s Office”.
Source: Ambito
