Based on an external audit, Ancap and UTE had filed complaints for alleged irregularities in the unfinished work.
The prosecutor Louis Pacheco asked the Justice close the investigation Gas Sayago case after understanding that the elements that are counted do not imply “a complaint from a criminal point of view“. Based on an external audit, joint venture had filed a complaint for alleged irregularities in the unfinished work, to which he had later joined ancap.
In his 2021 complaint, UTE pointed out that there had been up to four instances to have canceled the project that ended up causing millions in losses for the State. Ancap, for its part, supported the position of the energy company by presenting a folder with the actions of the administration that was in charge of the entity at the time of the project.
Pacheco assures that could not be shown that “the public officials investigated had committed arbitrary acts“, or that they were “pursuing a deliberate purpose of causing harm to the administration, or individuals.”
The Gas Sayago case could be reopened due to new information from Brazil
However, the file request is “without prejudice”, so the prosecutor made it clear that the case can be reopenedthere is currently a request for information to Braziland this procedure would take place before “eventual subsequent referrals of information by the authorities” of the South American giant.
Construction of the Gas Sayago regasification plant began in 2013, when the former Vice President of the Republic, Raul Sendic, was the president of Ancap. However, the works were left unfinished due to the lack of interest from Argentina to buy gas.
At that time, the Executive Power had granted Gas Sayago, whose shareholding composition was distributed 79.35% in UTE and 20.65% in Ancap, the concession for a gas pipeline that would connect the Puntas de Sayago terminal with the Cruz del Sur Gas Pipeline in Argentina.
Source: Ambito
