He will give his version before the Justice of what happened with the delivery of the passport to the Uruguayan drug trafficker.
The former chancellor Francisco Bustillo will testify this Friday before the Attorney General’s Office in the framework of the investigation for the delivery of a passport to the Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, thus adding his first public appearance after resigning on Wednesday.
Bustillo will appear as an investigator before the prosecutor for Economic and Complex Crimes, Alejandro Machadoan instance in which the Minister of the Interior already declared, Luis Alberto Heber; the vice minister of the interior, Guillermo Maciel; and the former vice chancellor Carolina Achewho unleashed a scandal within the government by denouncing that there were attempts to hide chats about the delivery of the passport.
It is worth remembering that ache stated that on December 14 Bustillo asked him not to hand over messages from WhatsApp yours with Maciel that referred to the danger of giving the passport to Marset.
“Let him be sent to the front Maciel, “I lost my cell phone,” he said. Bustillo, according to the audios of the former vice chancellor that were published by the weekly Busqueda. The dissemination of this data generated problems within the government and, after becoming known, the Prosecutor’s Office decided to elevate the case to the Office of Purification, Prioritization and Allocation (DPA) to open another investigation.
Controversy over the appointed interim chancellor
After the departure of Bustillo, was appointed as interim chancellor Diego Escuder, at least until the president returns Luis Lacalle Pou of his trip through USA. However, the election generated controversy because the new leader, who until yesterday was general director of the Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was mentioned by ache as one of the participants in the meeting where the chats were discussed.
In any case, it emerged that the role of shield is interim and one of those in the running to be ratified in the position is Carlos Enciso, who today serves as ambassador of Uruguay in Argentina. Meanwhile, the one who remained in his position was the vice chancellor Nicolas Albertoni.
Source: Ambito
