Prosecutor Gabriela Fossati reported this Sunday that “The Presidency itself” offered the chats of President Luis Lacalle Pou with his former custodian Alejandro Astesiano that is “The elements are made available voluntarily and they will try to recover what can be recovered from that communication.”
The prosecutor made this information known through the spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office, Javier Benech, adding that “no one has a crown in this investigation.”
She herself had informed El Observador on November 29 that in the investigation folder did not have the chats between the former presidential custodian, Alejandro Astesiano, and the president. According to Fossati, he excluded them based on a “requirement from the Presidency” for the voluntary delivery of the cell phone.
However, this Sunday the prosecutor reported that the non-use of the chats between the President of the Republic and Astesiano was due to “miscommunication by intermediaries, particularly intelligence personnel who were there on the night of the arrest (of the former custodian)”. Astesiano was detained at Suárez’s presidential residence after returning from a trip by the president with his children.
“No one has a crown”
“No one has a crown in the investigation,” Fossati asked to transmit to the spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office.
The prosecutor affirmed this after the Broad Front questioned her decision. The senator Mario Bergara told Informativo Carve that “the government is not showing a vocation for transparency, but rather for concealment” and He said that “it is a very bad sign” that the prosecutor has agreed not to have access to the chats between Lacalle Pou and Astesiano. “The president has a crown and he will not be investigated, even if God knows what emerged from the chats,” Bergara said.
baseless espionage
After the chats of the former head of presidential custody appeared that the company Vertical Skies asked him to put together “two files” with personal information to “tie” legislators Mario Bergara and Charles Carrera and prevent them from taking the complaint to justice For the concession of the port to the company Katoen Natie, the legislators filed a complaint with the court prosecutor for alleged espionage.
In addition, Carrera asked that the investigation be carried out by another prosecutor and not by Fossati. “A prosecutor is not going to be able to carry out all this with the ramifications that it has had“He said in the extraordinary session of the Senate this Wednesday.
In this regard heThe prosecutor asserted that the dimension of the facts is not yet known. Fossati stressed that he has already summoned both legislators and that, once they attend, “he will be able to transmit the tranquility that they demand through the media.”
At the same time, on his Twitter account, he recalled this Sunday that the senators were summoned to attend the Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday morning. “Bergara cancelled. Carrera postponed it.”
The prosecutor called for prudence, “especially to those who have an impact on public opinion.” She also wrote that talking about espionage with the information collected so far “is unfounded” and closed: “Let the Prosecutor’s Office in charge of the case work.”
In a subsequent tweet, the prosecutor deepened her response to the criticism and noted: “Nothing and no one will stop investigating. They are not helping to reach the truth when they try to impose a truth.”
