The senator for the Broad Front (FA), Charles Carrera Leal, lamented that the representatives of the Executive Power who went to Parliament yesterday to offer explanations about the scandal of the former presidential custodian, Alejando Astesiano, have not admitted that it was “A mistake” to have appointed him in the highest security position of the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou.
Luis Alberto Heber, Minister of the Interior; Rodrigo Ferrés, Deputy Secretary of the Presidency, and Álvaro Garcé, Director of State Intelligence.
Carrera recalled that Lacalle was warned by the late former Minister of the Interior, Jorge Larrañaga, as well as by other nationalist leaders, of Astesiano’s record, which was charged with prison in 2013 and sentenced in 2014 for fraud, a month before the elections. nationals of that moment in which Lacalle Pou was a candidate.
“We do not say that the president participated in this association to commit crimes. We say that the president, by putting him in that place, made a strategic mistakeput him in a place where he could access a lot of information and gave him many links, for example, with those who are today in Immigration and with Civil Identification (…) that information we do not know where it can be today, ”Carrera Leal said in an interview in Nothing to lose of M24.
The government officials also did not answer about the whereabouts of the 184,000 data of digital identities pirated from the State, information that “In the world of crime they are worth a lot of money.” What happened on the part of the government was “a great performance by Heber, who blames the Broad Front for 70% of it.”
“Unpresentable” arguments
“If Heber put the strength he puts into looking for management into the past, put it into managing today, we wouldn’t have as many security and violence problems as we have today. If he had put that much effort into looking into the background of custodians; look for a lying letter because he attributed intentions that from the Presidency of the Republic of Pepe (José Mujica) an attempt was made to rush a passport, which is an absolute falsehood, a passport that was not granted”, pointed out the legislator.
The Frente Amplio senator described as “unpresentable” the fact that Ferrés had said that Astesiano was not the head of presidential security, when Senator Alejandro Sánchez presented a document in which the former custodian is spoken of as such.
“Ferrés is the same as when he was being investigated for the criminal complaint that the FA senators made (for the Uruguay-Katoen Natie agreement), when he arrived at the door of the Prosecutor’s Office he said that when he arrived on March 1, 2020 at the Executive Tower, becomes aware of a set of illegalities that had been committed in the Port and later we learned that Ferrés had been an advisor to the director of the opposition in the ANP during the entire 2015-2020 administration. It is an irresponsible and untruthful attitude,” Carrera continued.
Regarding the strength of the Uruguayan passport, Carrera warned that it could lose credibility because, currently, there are 130 countries that do not request a visa for people with said document, but “now they are going to look at you with different eyes”; He recalled that the previous government had negotiated a visa exemption to enter the United States, and “they spoke to us and recognized the credibility of Uruguay, the security of the biometric document, with a chip.”
