The president of Frente Amplio (FA), Fernando Pereira, questioned the actions of Luis Lacalle Pou in the face of the scandal of his former custodian, which is still giving chapters in history and now involves the president, for keeping quiet about the information he has on the matter.
“It can only be resolved in one way: by saying everything you know,” said Pereira regarding the infiltrated chats between the president and his former custodian about the illegal persecution of the union leader. Marcelo Abdalafor an alleged visit to a drug den that would have caused him to have a traffic accident.
“The president cannot say that he did not know. The president knew that they were going to go to that pantry because they thought it was a mouth. This chat hurts politics, the president of the Republic,” questioned the president of the FA.
The president had several opportunities to comment on what he knew about the Astesian case, as well as in the delivery of a passport to drug trafficker Sebastián Marset. However, in all of them he claimed not to know what was going on behind his back. Now, the publication of the chats with his former custodian regarding Abdala showed that the president had an idea of what was happening.
“It is evident that the president knew more than what he said about this issue. There was a lot of talk about the monitoring of Abdala and Senators (Charles) Carrera and (Mario) Bergara, he said that it was smoke and that he was going to wait for the court ruling.” Pereira remarked. “The president’s security chief cannot follow union leaders, it is illegal,” he added.
And Fossati?
On the other hand, the president of the opposition also questioned the actions of the then prosecutor in the case: Gabriela Fossati. “Why was this not investigated? The prosecutor who studied the case will have to answer it. The case was filed very quickly. I know I heard a hearing with the president where there was very little questioning,” she said.
During his work as prosecutor in the case Astesiano, Fossati received a complaint from the union leader for illegitimate monitoring based on conversations that came to light between the former custodian of Lacalle Pou and the deputy executive director of the Police at that time, Jorge Berriel. However, given the lack of evidence, the prosecutor closed the matter since no progress could be made with a possible accusation.
Regarding the conversation between Astesiano and Lacalle Pou for WhatsApp where they talked about the crash that Abdala had and the suspicion that whether or not he had been in a drug den, the prosecutor assured that she knew nothing. “Not even Police He warned me, I didn’t even see anything about that chat. My team was not aware either,” she told Montevideo Portal.
“I don’t know about the base paste mouth. Yes, at the time Abdala told me that the day he crashed he had had a complicated day due to personal problems,” she added.
Source: Ambito
