Opposition lawmakers are seeking an explanation for how the talks ended up in the hands of a former Lacalle Pou advisor.
He Broad Front (FA) submitted a request for reports to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) by the internal document that contained chats between the former vice chancellor Carolina Ache and the former undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Guillermo Macielabout the danger of handing over a passport to the Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset when he was in a prison United Arab Emirates in 2021.
The opposition political force seeks to know how said private conversation ended up in the hands of Roberto Lafluf, the former Communication advisor of the President Luis Lacalle Pouwho subsequently destroyed the document.
The opposition legislators decided to present the request for reports after the MRREE decided not to investigate the incident, which led, among other things, to the resignation of the Former Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo.
He Broad Front Senator Charles Carrera He assured through his there was already an investigation in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office and, therefore, it was not appropriate to investigate internally, which is not true.
In this way, the FA legislators understand that “it is the obligation of the administration to investigate any irregularity and, according to decree 500/991, the administrative route is independent of the judicial route,” he stressed. Career.
What did the FA ask the Foreign Ministry about the Marset case?
In the letter about the request for reports, the FA consulted the Chancellery What was the regulatory basis for not initiating an administrative investigation in the event that they classify as “serious”, that a file passes directly from a ministry into the hands of an advisor.
In turn, they asked if not investigating apparently irregular events in parallel with the Justice Department is a policy managed by the government itself. MRREE.
Source: Ambito
