The Minister of the Interior, Louis Albert Hebersaid that the leak of information from a secret session between the director of the Secretariat of Intelligence Alvaro Garce and a bicameral commission of the Parliament It is a “very serious” fact because it “strips the State’s strategy”and assured that it is a case of “fire friend”.
for the minister if he was a parliamentarian the person responsible for the leak should be expelled because “he violated the oath” of parliamentarians, who orders “keep secret” in cases of this style. “You have to check it out” clarified.
Heber argued that this is a case of “friendly fire” in the fight against “delinquency, organized crime and terrorism”: “It’s hard to fight them when they know our strategy”lament.
The chief explained that the case “is in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office”, and understands that the seriousness lies in the fact that “there were conversations that came out publicly”. “That’s where there could have been infiltrations”.
The Chambers and Astesian
Heber said he did not know if Alexander Astesianformer head of custody of the president Luis Lacalle Pou, used the Home Office security cameras in Executive Tower for personal purposes, as reported The Observer.
The Prosecutor’s Office investigates whether the person involved used the cameras of the Unified Command present at Executive Tower and in the presidential residencewhich are shown by security cameras anywhere in the country, for illicit businesses in which he participated.
However, despite the fact that he acknowledged having “read” the information, Heber stated that he doesn’t know if Astesiano used the cameras.
The former custodian is investigated for being part of an organization that he falsified documents of Russian citizens so that they would have access to Uruguayan documentation. Along with him, three people were arrested: the Russian manager Alexey Slivaev, the scribe Alvaro Fernandez and his wife Patricia Medina.
