After the announcement that the prosecutor’s office headed by Gabriela Fossati opened a new line of work to investigate the leaks of chats of the former presidential custodian Alejandro Astesiano, it was confirmed that the Complex Crimes Prosecutor will summon all the people who have had access to the chatsreported Underlined and confirmed the spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, Javier Benech.
Those involved will be summoned as witnesses, informed the Prosecutor’s Office. But it may happen that the prosecutor considers that one of the witnesses is later summoned as a questioner.
The spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that journalists could be subpoenaed, but they could rely on the legal right to refuse to reveal their sources.
In recent weeks, chats between Astesiano and different people, mainly police officers. The content of the latter refers to a request made by the accused to the number three of the police, Jorge Berriel, to find out information about a personal trip of the wife of the President of the Republic, Lorena Ponce de León.
In recent weeks, in addition, chats had been leaked that exposed the management of the security of the president and his family.
Gabriela Fossati, head of the investigation, had accepted that, after the seizure of Astesiano’s cell phone, the chats that the respondent had with the president “taking into account his investiture” were eliminated. then when The Observer published that there had been a requirement of the Presidency, the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, delivered the chats.
The first line of research concerns the tampering with documentation to obtain Uruguayan passportsin which the former presidential custodian is involved, who used the 4th floor of the Executive Tower to participate in these maneuvers.
The other line of investigation is linked to everything that has come out of the former custodian’s chats with different people, including possible spying on Broad Front senators by a private company based in Miami.
