The Structured Journalistic Investigations Network assured days ago that “no Uruguayan faced consequences” in the local Justice, and that requests for collaboration and extradition from other countries that did carry out judicial processes, referring to the case of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, were rejected. company that would have bribed money and bribes to presidents, former presidents and government officials in at least 12 countries.
Within this framework, within fifty accused are three Uruguayans, investigated for money laundering in Panama.
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The hearing has been scheduled for September, an instance in which the 50 defendants must testify, including three Uruguayans: the accountant Maya Cikurel, partner of the Minister of Education and Culture, Pablo Da Silveira, whose extradition was frustrated in 2021 as a result of that the Justice understood that the request should have been made through the Judiciary and not the Public Ministry; Andrés “Bettingo” Sanguinetti, brother of former President Julio María Sanguinetti and former director of Peñarol; and Juan Francisco Mutio, former president of the Uruguayan corporation Sherkson International.
