The senator and leader of the Open Cabildo Guido Manini Ríos again denied that he, his wife, Irene Moreira, and his father-in-law, Roque Moreira, are settlers, after a technical report prepared by the National Institute of Colonization ( INC) that involves him in irregularities.
From the inspection reported by Search this Friday, it was obtained that the family exploits 4,350 hectares in Artigas and 2,856 are covered by Law 11,029 that created the agency.
Manini pointed out through a statement that the information is “erroneous” and attributed to the institute, in the first instance, the acquisition of the field. “The field to which the report refers, register 511 of the department of Artigas, was acquired by the INC in 1970,” he said. And he continued: “A few months after it was acquired, (…) it was established that the reference field did not meet the necessary conditions to be colonized (…) and that the ‘floodable area, the area occupied by the mountains, drainage difficulties made it impossible for the Institute to use it, as it was uneconomical to exploit it”.
Later, he explained that because of these reasons, the INC “decided to alienate the field” and call for bids. It was then that Moreira presented himself as one of the bidders and took over the land, according to his version, on July 5, 1971.
The next operation was four years later, when Moreira agreed to sign a new purchase-sale commitment, “which leaves no doubt about the inexistence of any link between the buyer and INC,” according to Manini.
“On December 2, 1981, after the price had been settled, the INC and Mr. Roque Moreira executed the purchase contract for the promised property for sale and the seller transferred the property to the buyer,” the message added.
The story of the lobbyist leader maintains that since then the National Institute of Colonization has not claimed his father-in-law again or for the occupation, residence, exploitation or disposition of the existing property on the property.
Law 11,029 indicates that there are “affected settlers” and “qualified settlers”, those who are outside the obligations of the norm, despite having bought a field from the INC. Among other things, they are not required to reside in the countryside.
