The former head of Presidential Security Alexander Astesian was imprisoned in the Las Rosas prison (Maldonado) in 2013 for a continued crime of fraud, reported La Diaria and sources from the Ministry of the Interior confirmed to The Observer.
Astesian – today imputed Y derived to Florida– was prosecuted with prison that year, and was imprisoned for a few months. Until now, his passage through Las Rosas was unknown. The Observer had reported this Monday that the man had a criminal record from 2003, and had almost 30 inquiries.
In 2003 the prosecution had also been for fraud, although without imprisonment. Ten years later he was sent to jail on a preventive basis for the same crime, and this Tuesday he was sent to Florida to serve preventive detention. This time for him continued crime of assumption of marital status in real reiteration with crime of association to commit a crime and influence peddling.
Lacalle Pou released Astesiano this Tuesday after the formalization hearing, as reported The Observer.
The President’s Custodian was arrested on Sunday in the residence of Suárez and Reyes, after the prosecutor of Flagrancia, Gabriela Fossati, requested their arrest, within the framework of a investigation for falsifying documents for Russians to access passports Uruguayans.
Three people have already been charged for this cause: two Russian citizens and a Uruguayan notary public. The people involved falsified Uruguayan documents, in which family ties were created so that the Russians could access the Uruguayan passport.
He was arrested upon arrival in the country, after traveling with Lacalle Pou and her children during the September holidays. It was he who, upon getting off the plane, told the president that the Director of Intelligence, Claudio Correa, was waiting for him at the presidential residence.
After the meeting between Lacalle Pou and Correa, Astesiano was arrested and brought to justice.
