The Board of Directors of the Colonization Institute would have launched an external audit starting this Wednesday, March 23, to find out who were the officials who leaked information that would compromise the senator, Guido Manini Ríos, in disputed events.
According published last week in the weekly SearchGeneral Inspection Division of the National Colonization Institute (INC) determined that retired Colonel Roque Moreira, his daughter Irene Moreira (Minister of Housing) and his son-in-law the senator of Cabildo Abierto and retired general Guido Manini Ríos “manage and exploit” 4,350 hectares in Artigas, of which 2,856 hectares are affected by the INC.
This information was disclosed by the aforementioned weekly, and this week it announced that the president of the INC, Julio Cardozo, is upset with the leaking of documents because, in his opinion, it is “confidential” information. This would bring “consequences” for the people involved.
The idea of contracting an external audit was put on the table by the directors of the INC who represent the multicolor coalition parties: Julio Cardozo and Rodrigo Herrero, for the National Party, and José Amy and Walter Rodríguez, for the Colorado Party.
depending on the mediumthe session of the Board of Directors on Wednesday the 23rd was “intense and discussed”, and lasted until around midnight, and there were repeated requests to the attendees that everything said there be kept strictly confidential.
The complaint
Last week, Search published that an inspection carried out in October 2021 on property No. 511, located in the 4th cadastral section of Artigas, belongs to retired Colonel Roque Moreira, father of the Minister of Housing, Irene Moreira, who in turn She is the wife of Guido Manini Ríos.
The Board of Directors could request Manini Ríos “the title of fraction No. 2 of the Colonization property in merit of the provisions of article 70 of Law 11,029 in the wording given by Law 18,756, regarding the registration of fractions in violation” .
Likewise, it would request the corporation “El Palomar” -whose president is Irene Moreira-, the presentation of the title of sale of fractions of building 511, “affected for the purposes of colonization”.
Manini Ríos came out to contradict the accusations and affirmed that it is a smear campaign and “enchastre” by “hired journalists.
The nationalist president of the INC also declared to the press that “it cannot be affirmed” that Manini and Moreira are settlers.
The member of the INC Board of Directors representing the Broad Front, Andrés Berterreche, told TV Ciudad that although he did not want to get ahead of himself until the Legal Counsel makes its report, in any case “it is not disputed that they are owners, but they are owners affected by the Colonization Law without consulting the Institute.”
