The Prosecutor’s Office will request new statements to expand the investigation into the interference of the Brazilian government in the hiring of OAS.
He Power of attorney requested the unfiling of the case Gas Sayago as a response to the request of the lawyer representing National Administration of Fuels, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap)Gustavo Bordes, and established that they will request more statements to try to prove the interference of the Brazilian government in the hiring of the Brazilian company OAS, for the construction of part of the works.
From the Attorney General’s Office They established that more statements will be requested with the aim of expanding the investigation and trying to “verify the possible interference of Brazilian government authorities in the Uruguayan government” in the hiring of the Brazilian company. Besides, the Prosecutor’s Office establishes that there are “facts that, being previous, were not known, and that are related to the issue being investigated”, which caused the unfile the case.
The request for de-filing by Ancap’s lawyer indicated that “the evidence by letters was not completed in the manner requested,” as confirmed by El País. Furthermore, he stressed that when the case was filed it was carried out “without prejudice to possible subsequent submissions of information by the authorities of the Republic of Brazil”.
When the file request was made in June, it had the characteristic of being “without prejudice” so the prosecutor at that time, Luis Pacheco, made it clear that the case can be reopened, since at the time there was a request for information from Braziland this procedure would occur in response to “possible subsequent submissions of information by the authorities” of the South American giant.
The keys to the case
The Gas Sayago regasification plant began construction in 2013, when the former vice president of the Republic, Raul Sendic, was the president of Ancap. However, the works remained unfinished due to the lack of interest of Argentina in buying gas.
At that time, the Executive Branch had granted Gas Sayago, whose shareholding was divided into 79.35% in UTE and 20.65% in Ancap, the concession of a gas pipeline that was going to connect the Puntas de Sayago terminal. with the Cruz del Sur Gasduct in Argentina.
Gas Sayago has been in the liquidation process since 2019, since then, the company has losses for the state for more than 9.55 million dollars regarding leasing National Ports Administration (ANP)legal advice, surveillance, among other expenses.
Source: Ambito
