The 3rd Shift Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office summoned the current Minister of the Interior to testify as witnesses on June 28, Luis Alberto Heber (formerly Minister of Transport)and the Assistant Secretary of the Presidency, Rodrigo Ferresfor the complaint that the Broad Front presented after the extension of the concession that the government granted to the Belgian company Katoen Natie for Terminal Cuenca del Plata, reported MVD News (TV City) and confirmed The Observer.
The prosecutor Gilberto Rodriguez is in charge of the investigation that aims to identify possible irregularities in the extension that the government made to Katoen Natie.
In that sense, he arranged a list of subpoenas to advance the case. Heber is cited for his task at the head of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP); He was minister of that portfolio when the government of President Luis Lacalle Pou renewed the concession of the specialized container terminal of the port of Montevideo until 2081 to the Belgian company.
For the day after Heber and Ferrés, the undersecretary of the MTOP, Juan Jose Olaizolaand the president of the National Administration of Ports (ANP), John Curbeloaccording to the list of citations you accessed The Observer this Tuesday.
Prosecutor Rodríguez will receive before George Polgareconomist, former Undersecretary of Economy, former president of the Banco Hipotecario (BHU) and the Banco República (BROU) in the Frente Amplio governments.
Also to the economist Gabriel Oddone (CPA Ferrere), on June 20. For the following day the economist Alfonso Capurro (CPA Ferrere) was summoned. Oddone, for his part, was the author, together with Capurro, Juan Pablo Tizón and Sebastián Fleitas, of the report “Extension of the TCP Concession: impacts on the efficiency, prices and competitiveness of the Port of Montevideo”by CPA Ferrere, published in April 2021.
The last summons is for June 22, the date on which Rodríguez summoned the economist Martín Vallcorba.
Polgar, together with the former director of the Financial Inclusion program at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Martín Vallcorba, carried out a report named “The government’s agreement with Katoen Natie will not improve the efficiency of the port and will negatively affect the competitiveness of the Uruguayan economy”published in May 2021.
