The court prosecutor, Juan Gómez, ratified his “absolute support” for the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati, the person in charge of the investigation into Alejandro Astesiano, the former custodian of Luis Lacalle Pou. And she said that it is not convenient for the prosecutor to get rid of the case.
“In the middle of the river you don’t change horses”, he expressed at a press conference that he led this Tuesday. “”We have provided everything in our power (for the investigation). I will make the decisions that I have to make, in due course,” he added.
Also, for Gomez no legal reasons to transfer the case to an economic crimes prosecutor’s office. “The crimes to which the formalization refers in this case have nothing to do with the powers of economic crimes,” he explained.
When asked by a journalist, Gómez clarified: “The decisions I make as a court prosecutor have nothing to do with politics.”
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Gómez postponed the transfer of the prosecutor Fossati, to Economic and Complex Crimes until the investigation progresses on band that integrated Asthesianthe former head of custodians of President Lacalle Pou.
This generated the anger of Fossati, who intended to continue the case from the new role. “I am very upset about many things,” she told herself to The Observer, although he preferred not to make any further statements on the subject.
Fossati is dedicated exclusively to research about the band that falsified documents so that Russian and Ukrainian citizens access to uruguayan passports, but, in parallel, one of her associates continues with the other pending flagrancy cases.
As reported The Observer In September of this year, prosecutor Gómez decided that Fossati should take the place of Enrique Rodríguez, who will lead the new Money Laundering Prosecutor’s Office, starting in January 2023.
