In an abbreviated trial, the prosecutor Jorge Vaz charged the former coordinator of the Maldonado Police Headquarters Fernando Pereira with “repeated crimes of abuse of functions, clandestine work, disclosure of secrecy, failure of a public official to report crimes, internal arms trafficking and ideological falsification by an individual ”.
The sentence is 24 months in prison, of which nine months will be effective prison, three of total house arrest and 12 months of probation. In the latter case, you must establish a domicile before the court and you will not be able to leave the country.
Likewise, the sentence includes the disqualification for three years from holding public office and a fine of 100 readjustable units (about 136,200 pesos).
Links with Cardoso
At the time of Pereira’s indictment, last June, the prosecutor revealed that at that time the Minister of Tourism, Germán Cardoso, requested certain actions at the police level, particular requests, which the coordinator carried out.
“It is denoted that they had a friendship relationship and that he asked him to carry out certain procedures. We understand that the coordinator skipped all the procedures that he had to carry out and used the police machinery in those requests, ”he said.
