The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, requested this Wednesday that the presidential security be once again in charge of the Military House, as was the case until 2005, when the Presidential Security Service (SSP) was created in the Budget Law. . “It was a mistake to create this institution in the Presidency. I agree with the senators who say that we should go back to what it was historically, which is the Military House, which determines which people are going to take care of the President of the Republic. It was already raised in the Senate in the interpellation (appearance in general committee) and I did not see any voice against it », he said at a press conference.
To go back, an article should be voted on in Parliament that nullifies what was decided in 2005.
The first senator who proposed the return to the Military House was his co-religionist Gustavo Penadés. Days after, the senator of Cabildo Abierto Guido Manini Ríos supported the position. “There was a lot more professionalism,” she said.
On this point, Heber recalled that during his appearance before the Senate for the investigation into Alejandro Astesiano – ex-custody of the president accused of being part of a gang that falsified documentation – He listed the criminal records of the presidential custodians of the Frente Amplio and Astesiano administrations.
«I clearly demonstrated in the Senate of the Republic that his background (those of Astesiano) had been hidden and that the background with judicial problems (in the presidential custody) had all the presidents. The intervention on how this was handled, that it was handled badly, by all the presidents was very clear, “he assured.
Management Defense
Then, asked about how the Ministry of the Interior and the Presidency was left after the Astesiano case and its possible links with other hierarchs of the portfolio, Heber replied: “If we dismantle the organization, how are we going to look bad? We are strengthened.”
The minister appreciated that the Police “self-purify” in situations like this, “in the event that it is so” that the hierarchs had participation in the illegalities that are attributed to Astesiano.
Later, he returned to his point: «We ourselves dismantled those who acted for many years and who were not detected. This ministry and this government are more than satisfied with the action of the Police to discover the organization. As established by the Code of Criminal Procedure, criminal investigations are in charge of prosecutors, in this case, of Gabriela Fossati.
Hierarchs are not in office
On the other hand, the minister informed that the hierarchs of the portfolio investigated by the Astesiano case are not in office and remarked that the portfolio is “collaborating with the prosecution.” “They are in use of license”, he affirmed. The Ministry of the Interior initiated an administrative investigation to determine the responsibility of the two, who hold a position of trust, for which they are “licensed,” explained the minister. “We have just started the investigation, so it is missing,” he added.
