“The FA and some others are looking for a political circus. I’m not in the game.” the senator tweeted about Jutep’s request for reports and investigation.
Senator Juan Sartori tweeted this Wednesday afternoon, almost three hours after issuing a press release on the investigation that the Board of Transparency and Public Ethics (Jutep) initiated due to his failure to present the Sworn Declaration of Assets and Income of his wife, Ekaterina Rybolovlev, daughter of Russian tycoon Dmitry Ryboloyev, owner of AS Monaco. Jutep considers that this behavior constitutes a “serious offense”, as stated in the response to the request for information presented by senators of the Broad Front (FA) aired Tuesday night on Montevideo Portal.
“My affidavit was presented in its entirety before Jutep. It is unconstitutional to want to force me to demand from my wife, a different legal person with whom I have separation of property, to present anything. The FA and some others are looking for a political circus. I’m not in the game.” the nationalist senator tweeted at 7:12 p.m. this Wednesday.
His first words on the subject had also arrived this Wednesday at 4:23 p.m. “The affidavit was presented and even an extension was presented as requested, which in my case is much more complex and long than that of many other legislators, which was done with the best advisors in the country and in a satisfactory manner. I have declared everything I have to declare and the Jutep is in agreement with that»said the first statement.
“The aspect of the rule referring to the sworn declaration of spouses and common-law partners, after having consulted with the main administrative lawyers in the country, they concluded that ‘it presents a number of legal problems,’ ranging from a gender issue to a problem of unconstitutionality”, he announced then.
«I can’t force my wife to do something, and worse still, sanctioning me for a different legal person, who does not live in the country, from which I am separated from assets and has every right to want to preserve their privacy»Sartori initially said, adding that whether or not his wife made the statement was “out of his control.”
“We are working with our advisors, together with the best constitutional and administrative lawyers in the country, to analyze the problems with this rule,” advanced, hours before ruling that “it is unconstitutional.”
“The FA and some more”
Sartori criticized the FA in the statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, but in the tweet the questioning extends to “someone else”. The white legislator stated that the opposition is “using the issue for absolutely political purposes.”
“There is no doubt that this has no basis, no legal basis. It is a discussion that the different technicians can have about how to enforce the standard and what are the consequences of a breach that is impossible to carry out. All the rest is a political circus in which I am not going to get involved. concluded the senator.
In the tweet he questions that “the FA and some others are looking for a political circus.”
Eduardo Brenta, one of the three FA senators who submitted the request for information to Jutep, highlighted this Wednesday at a press conference that the Board’s response confirms “Senator Sartori’s omission of compliance with the law, which is the presentation of the sworn declaration of oneself and of one’s spouse”.
The Jutep concluded that the senator maintains the obligation to present the affidavit of his spouse. “If the presidency of the chamber does not do it, it must apply the rule that establishes the withholding of 50% of the legislator’s salary, which is the sanction that is established; and second, I think there are political consequences, because the board of directors, the president of the National Party director and the president of the republic have repeatedly spoken about transparency and public management, about the importance of people believing in the political system through transparent management, and here we find a senator of the republic who violates a legal norm that has to do with transparency. Because this norm what he considers is the possibility of enrichment through the exercise of management, and that is what is intended to be avoided, that the public function is not to enrichBrenda said.
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