President Luis Lacalle Pou met Alexander Astesian in 1999. He stayed in touch for his father’s campaign in 2004, and formed a team with him -which is policeman– in 2014. By 2019, Astesiano accompanied him throughout the campaign, and until now his place of work was an office in the Executive Tower. He also had his place in the residence of Suárez y Reyes, and where the Lacalle Pou-Ponce de León family required it.
“If there were one more minimum indicationI would not give him the most precious thing I have, which is my family,” Lacalle Pou said this Monday at a press conference he held in the early hours of the afternoon, when the name of his custody was on the front pages of the media since a couple of hours ago.
“I am as surprised as you are (…) If there were indications, I do not give him the most precious thing, which is my family,” he said.
Lacalle Pou was abroad last week with his children on the occasion of spring break, where Astesiano accompanied them. The president branded it in a conference as a “professionally impeccable” person.
According to what he said, when he arrived at the Carrasco airport this Sunday, the same head of custody was the one who informed him that the director of intelligence, Claudio Correa da Silva, was waiting for him at the residence of Suárez and Reyes.
Correa Da Silva was the one led the operation that arrested Astesianowho has multiple police inquiries for damage, fraud and theft. He has been required, and has visited several police headquarters. Although Lacalle Pou said that he does not have a criminal record, Until the end of 2018, which is until when records are known, the police officer had almost 30 inquiries and a criminal record.
Astesiano has inquiries mostly in Montevideo and also in Colonia, Canelones and Maldonadoaccording to the annotations broadcast by Radio Sarandí on September 7, 2021.
On April 18, 2002, he was prosecuted without imprisonment for fraud in real competition with two crimes described in literals A, C and E of article 58 of decree law 14,412 (punishment of six months to four years in prison if he writes check falsifying data , that could not be paid, frustrate your payment method, etc.).
Then the inquiries into Astesiano would begin, just a month later. On May 30, 2002, he was investigated for a crime of theft. The investigation was carried out by officers from the 6th Police Station in Montevideo.
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Facade of the Montevideo Police Headquarters
On February 18, 2003, he was investigated by the Zone 2 Security Area and months later, on September 24, again investigated for theft, this time at the 19th Police Station in Montevideo.
On September 24, 2003, he was transferred to the 19th Police Station in Montevideo, where he was interrogated for theft.
On December 17, 2003, he was investigated for misappropriation at the 16th Police Station in Montevideo. For the same case he testified later at the 19th Police Station, on July 6, 2004.
On May 18, 2005, he was investigated for fraud in the Security Area of Zone 2. On December 20 of that year he declared in the 3rd Police Station for misappropriation. He would do it again at the 21st Police Station on April 27, 2007, but for theft.
A few months later, on November 20, 2007, they investigated him twice: once at the 23rd police station for a recovered vehicle, and for misappropriation on the same day, in the Zone 1 Security Area (which is the same event) .
On April 14, 2009, he was investigated for theft at the 17th Police Station, and just four days later, at the 4th Police Station for fraud.
Those are the first 12 inquiries.
On March 8, 2010, he went to the 4th Police Station, and in May to the Zone 2 Investigation Area, where he declared for fraud. At the end of that year there were police investigations that had him as an interrogator.
Later, he was investigated again for fraud, in Cologne.
On December 2, 2011, he was investigated for fraud.
On December 30, 2011, he was investigated for fraud at the 2nd Police Station in Canelones. A few days later, on January 9, 2012, he was questioned by the Judicial Affairs Division of the Montevideo Police (requisition). On the 27th of that month he had another indictment, just like on February 7th.
In May 2012, the Canelones police began proceedings to determine his whereabouts.
Then, on August 3, 2012, he was investigated for damage at the Montevideo Police Headquarters. On August 12 he would be questioned again, this time for misappropriation.
On December 1, 2012, a new investigation for fraud. He accumulated another for the same crime, on the 8th of the same month.
On October 18, 2013, he declared for fraud in Zone 1.
On July 24, 2014, he was investigated for Complex Facts, at the Police Investigations Directorate.
On April 29, 2015, investigated for theft.
On July 5, 2017 and September 20, 2018, the police requested to find out his whereabouts, for the above reasons.
Before the MSP
A bug you agreed to The Observer indicates: “By resolution of the Human Resources Division of MSP – ASSE, the Fco. Dorrego Laboratory, UE 064, summons Mr. Alejandro Andres Astesiano Severgnini (…) an official of this unit to report to it within a period of 72 hours for the purpose of regularizing their contractual situation”.
