The President of the Republic Luis The street Pou referred this Tuesday to the case Asthesian and indicated that “you have to go to the bone” in the investigation and opined that the prosecutor Gabriela Fossatimust “follow to the end” in the investigation of the case.
Fossati expressed in the last hours the lack of support from the Court Prosecutor in the investigation that has the former chief of custody of the president as the central accused. He even said that he hoped to leave the case and go on to serve in an Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, something he had planned months ago, before taking on the Astesiano case, which investigates the falsification of documents to sell Uruguayan passports to Russian citizens.
“First you have to go to the bone and I am going to give an opinion on which it is not for me to decide: the person who has this case, follow it to the end,” said the president in Punta del Este.
In this context, he said that “he has been provided with all the information that is required and he will be given even more.” Lacalle Pou stated that “there can be no doubt” about whether a prosecutor was changed in the case. He also assured that “the government does not have a straw tail.” “You have to give him all the information so that the case is finished and then the whole truth is known,” she said.
«I can be wrong, but doing things wrong, outside the law, no. In this issue, as in all, you have to go to the bone, “he added. He also referred to the summons of the Secretary of the Presidency Álvaro Delgado and the deputy secretary Rodrigo Ferrés to testify as witnesses in the Astesiano case. «The prosecutor will understand what are the questions that she has to ask them. We have nothing to hide.”
Lacalle said that his personal opinion is that Fossati continues in the case. «It is not up to me (the decision), it is up to the Court Prosecutor (Juan Gómez). It seems to me that if he started a case, why is he going to leave? let him finish it if he supposedly knows where he’s going. Besides the suspicion, what is it? Oh they changed it, “he said.
The president closed the issue by saying that “those who have to go to jail go to jail and those who are declared innocent must be declared innocent” and that “that is what it is about.”
