In a letter sent to his brother, the former presidential custodian, Alejandro Astesiano, assured that “they caught him as a scapegoat” and that the case against him was “armed and “orchestrated” to serve as a media distraction.
In the letter to his brother Fabricio, the president’s former security chief Luis Lacalle Pou noted that his sentence was “disproportionate”, “inflated for the rostrum” and “pour la galerie“.
Astesiano is being held in the prison of Florida and must testify this Wednesday before prosecution after being summoned as a witness by the prosecutor Sabrina Flores to expand the information already provided in the framework of your case.
In addition, the inmate adds in the brief that the day before the sentence, his lawyer (Marcos Prieto) had told him that the Justice He had nothing convincing against him because of the issue of Uruguayan passports to Russian citizens, and that everything “was just smoke.”
The ex-security man is serving a sentence of 4 years and 6 months in prison for association to commit a crime, conjunction of public and private interest, disclosure of secrets, and influence peddling.
In this regard, Astesiano wrote that “there was never any passport, there was never any association: what’s more, no one ever told me that they wanted false passports, never. They only wanted to expedite a process, which was verified in the minutes.”
“It was already unbearable from the media pressure”
Alejandro Astesiano also maintained that many were angry when he signed the agreement with the Justice, but that “it was unbearable due to the media pressure, the psychological torture, the mental and emotional wear and tear,” adding that “he had no choice.”
“It seems that they were fierce with me,” he shot, maintaining that he was pressured to sign the agreement. “I don’t know a human being who can withstand so much public ridicule. When I leave, you will know more, black,” Astesiano concluded.
Source: Ambito
