The reports presented were three. Two that say that he is not a settler and another that understands that the senator is, the latter was prepared by the institute’s lawyers’ room.
The Board of Directors delayed its resolution pending the third report that finally agreed with the lobbyist. This is an external report that was requested from the professor of agrarian law at the Catholic University of Uruguay, Horacio de Brum.
The report presented by Manini Ríos himself, was prepared by Enrique Guerra Daneri, professor of agrarian law at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Republic (Udelar). There it is established that in 1970 Colonization bought fields not suitable for that purpose, for which it “sold them to the highest bidder.”
Newspaper versions had spread in March that both Manini Ríos and his wife (the current housing minister) Irene Moreira and her father Roque Moreira used INC land in the Department of Artigas. This version was based on a report from the official INC inspection that stated so.
