In the universe of the case of Alejandro Astesiano, former custodian of the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, new information continues to emerge from the investigations carried out by the General Directorate of Information and Police Intelligence.
The last thing that is known since this week is that Astesiano and his accomplices helped their Russian clients with false passports rent housing and contract public services such as electricity and water.
This arises from the cell phones seized from the notary public AF and the Russian AS, who communicated through the encrypted messaging service Signal to coordinate the delivery of adulterated items to the Russians, in which the blood relationship with a father or mother was falsified. Uruguayan grandfather to obtain nationality.
In one of the conversations of the investigation delivered to the prosecutor, Gabriela Fossati, the Russian AS asked the clerk to prepare birth certificates for a Russian couple. The latter replies that they will be ready soon because he is already working on it.
“Good afternoon! Please make a contract for the annual lease of a Russian citizen and a last bill for electricity, please. It is very necessary. A hug ”, the manager writes to the notary public the next day, who replied that he prepared everything for him.
Two days after that, the notary writes to the manager to send him an invoice from the UTE and a rental contract for a property. Shortly after, AS writes to him in the chat: “AF, please send the contract and receipt to my email. The bank asks for a good scanner. Hug”. AF answers in the affirmative.
AS says: “100 for you and 100 for me (referring to the fact that both will charge US$100 each for managing the rental and electricity service contract for a Russian client).