The outgoing Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heberand his second in that portfolio, Guillermo Macielformalized their resignations this Monday, which were already accepted on Saturday by the president Luis Lacalle Pouand they gave explanations about the situation that the vilo has at Uruguay.
Maciel and Heber They speak publicly about the explosive statements of the former vice chancellor Carolina Ache before the prosecutor’s office for the delivery of a passport by diplomatic bag to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset.
The former Minister of the Interior stated that he would not make any further comments on the case because it is being investigated by Justice. “Now my statements when leaving the court. I said the same thing as in Parliament. I have nothing to add,” he remarked.
Likewise, he valued “the double trust” he received from the president Lacalle Pouafter having been appointed as Minister of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) in 2020, and later as Minister of the Interior, after the death of the former minister Jorge Larrañaga.
“There is a political crisis and that is why I am resigning,” summarized the former minister, who through his resignation letter addressed to the president confirmed that “it was an honor to be in charge of the Police Institution,” and that he will now continue “serving the country.” and to the government” as a senator in Parliament.
Guillermo Maciel: “I didn’t do anything wrong”
In that sense, Maciel He assured at a press conference that “he did nothing wrong” and that he will prove it in the Prosecutor’s Office. “I have a clear conscience of having performed with loyalty and honesty,” he remarked. The now former undersecretary read a speech where he referred to his work these last three years and seven months, where he thanked the president and mentioned the former minister Larrañaga.
“Faced with the political events that determine my resignation, I feel obliged to point out some points that I will expand on in Prosecutor’s Office. Here again I apologize because I am an accused, subject to confidentiality, which prevents me from detailing some aspects that later, unfortunately, as they are leaked, surely all of you will find out,” questioned the former undersecretary.
The former Undersecretary of State stated that the “first and only time” he spoke with ache for the consultation of the General Directorate of Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking on Sebastian Marset It was November 3, 2021.
However, he explained that this was two months before the director of Consular Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Pauline DaviesI wrote to the ambassador Alvaro Cerianipointing out that the consultations were about the arrest of drug traffickers there in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
“I already knew then that it was a drug trafficker, I didn’t know it, neither did the political authorities. Surely ache neither,” he emphasized.
At the same time, Maciel He confirmed that he has all the chats saved on his cell phone, and that they are “protocolized.” “No one has ever judicially required me to provide any information. The Foreign Ministry provided the chats when requested by Justice,” he noted and said that those private conversations neither “harmed” nor “intimidated” him, since he was “fulfilling” his duty. .
About Alejandro Balbipresident of the National Football Club and defense lawyer Sebastian Marsetcommented that he never met with him, and that he never failed to inform the former minister of the situation either. Heber.
“I am the one who shows the chats in preparation for the interpellation,” and “I am the one who is wronged unfairly and contemptuously,” he said. Maciel about the former chancellor’s sayings Francisco Bustillowho described him as “moronic and abnormal” for making these conversations known.
“There are limits that in the Uruguay that I want do not intersect and here they intersected,” concluded the former Executive Branch official, who indicated that he will explain to the Prosecutor’s Office why he used his daughter’s phone to write to ache about drugs.
Source: Ambito
