The prosecutor in the case Alexander Astesianformer custodian of the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, said that the accused “He deleted all the messages” with the clerk named AF that he had on his cell phone before being arrested, the latter also accused of being a member of a network that falsified documentation to issue false passports to Russian citizens.
“From the cell phone that was seized, which was placed as evidence, it appears that Astesiano deleted all the messages he had with AF,” the prosecutor told TV City.
“It is not known whether or not he was aware of this investigation. All measures were taken to make it reserved, but all of us who are in the system know that sometimes efforts are not enough to achieve this situation, “said the lawyer at Tuesday’s hearing.
Astesian, he remarked, was “nothing more and nothing less than the right hand of the President of the Republic” and those links that he invoked in real or simulated form, “to facilitate the procedures” that he offered, still “have not been able to be detected in their entirety,” continued the fiscal.
Research on Astesian history
On Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of the Interior ordered an administrative investigation, arguing that there had been an adulteration of the former custodian’s police record.
Supposedly, Lacalle would have received in March 2020 and September 2021 a file with the entire history of the accused, in which the criminal record of prosecution for fraud in 2002 and conviction in 2014 for the same crime did not appear.
Through social networks, the ministry circulated a statement in which it maintains that “the President of the Republic was informed in a timely manner” by the Secretary of State that “the personal file of Mr. Alejandro Astesiano had no criminal record.”
“Surprisingly, the current file contains a record for a criminal case from 2013,” continues the statement, which also reports on the urgent investigation that the National Directorate of Scientific Police will coordinate, in order to “establish who or Who altered the information?
