Prosecutor Alejandro Machado derived the former vice chancellor’s statements about the destruction of audios and alleged evidence.
The former vice chancellor Carolina Ache Yesterday he exposed audios that compromised several leaders of the front line of the government – which caused the resignation of the chancellor. Francisco Bustillo –, and this caused the Prosecutor’s Office to decide to refer the case to open a new criminal investigation different from the one carried out by the delivery of the passport to the drug trafficker. Sebastian Marset.
This week the appearances of several government officials took place. Monday was Guillermo Maciel who went to the Prosecutor’s Office to give your statement to the prosecutor of Economic and Complex Crimes, Alejandro Machadowhich was followed on Tuesday by the Minister of the Interior himself, Luis Alberto Heber. Yesterday, it was the turn of the former vice chancellor, Carolina Ache, who generated a stir within the government due to the presentation of audios that compromise several leaders.
Machado’s decision to refer Ache’s statements to another Prosecutor’s Office, It occurs because they are considered criminal in nature. Therefore, on Friday the case will be raised to the office of Debugging, Prioritization and Assignment (DPA) of the Prosecutor’s Office to open a separate investigation, as confirmed by Subrayado.
Ache’s audios
The first audio presented by the former vice chancellor refers to December 14 of last year where Bustillo asks Ache not to hand over the WhatsApp messages in the administrative investigation. In those messages, Ache spoke with the undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Guillermo Macielwho warned him of the danger of Sebastián Marset upon the delivery of the Uruguayan passport, which would finally grant him freedom from prison. United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“Send Maciel to the front, you lose your cell phone. I’m imagining, you see, scenarios that I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. But in December or January you lost your cell phone… But now we are drawing lots, we have to draw lots, see? “This is step by step, you see?” Bustillo said, according to the weekly Busqueda.
In another audio of the audios presented by Ache, she tells Bustillo that Maciel also had the shared messages. “But I don’t think Maciel is so stupid to whitewash them. I can not believe it. He would shoot himself in the foot. Maciel doesn’t get away by sending you to the front. He doesn’t get away. Because the primary responsibility… the only ones who could stop the issuance of the passport or not, is the Ministry of Interior. Thats the reality. So, regardless of the warning he gave you, that does not take away his responsibility,” Bustillo responded.
On the other hand, Ache also disclosed messages shared on November 25 of last year with the president’s advisor Luis Lacalle Pou, Roberto Lafluf, where he called a meeting with Maciel on the 11th floor of the Executive Tower. During the meeting, the president’s advisor asked Maciel and Ache to delete the messages and then get a notary to log the cell phone with the deleted messages. Ache said that he refused at the time since he considered it a crime.
Source: Ambito
