Prior to the controversy over the organization that falsified documents, the former custodian of Luis Lacalle Pou Alejandro Astesiano was last inquired in 2022 on January 17according to the police file to which he agreed The Observer. That day he testified before the Directorate of Investigations for “taking advantage of counterfeiting”, provided for in article 235 of the Penal Code.
This article indicates that whoever uses false “bills” will be punished with 20 to 200 Resettable Units of a fine or equivalent prison term. Specifically, it is someone “having participated in the falsification or alteration of the bills of the companies referred to in the preceding article (234)”. Article 234 refers to the forgery of tickets of transport companies. “Whoever falsifies or alters tickets of railway companies or other public transport companies, will be punished with a fine of 100 to 800 Resettable Units or equivalent prison.”
In this case, Astesiano could have been investigated for a similar crime, which was investigated as “taking advantage of counterfeiting.”
Other annotations
On April 16, it generated a new entry after a police operation; A novelty appears as a driver of a vehicle, where members of the High Operational Dedication Program (PADO) acted in Montevideo.
On June 9, he reported having been the victim of a threat, and gave a statement as a complainant at Police Station 12 in Montevideo. The same thing happened a month later; on July 13 he filed a complaint in Zone 4 for the robbery of his son, who reported then The Observer.
the faraway
Before 2022, Astesiano has multiple investigations that began in 2002 when the police questioned him for theft. The Observer reported this Wednesday that the man was convicted in 2014 of fraud. He pretended to be a real estate agent and made $30,000. He offered houses showing photos of houses as if they were in Punta del Este, which were actually from Brazil.
News in development.
