Nine people, including two municipal officials from Cerro Largo, were charged in that department for a smuggling or theft of nearly one hundred cars from Brazil, Prosecution sources reported.
Those involved face charges for the crimes of ideological forgery of public document, forgery of public document, fraud, money laundering and concealmentaccording to the attached prosecutor of Cerro Largo on the 2nd shift, María Eugenia Caltieri, after the hearing, in statements recorded by Telemundo (Channel 12).
The prosecutor stated that these people functioned as an organizationand performed two maneuvers: illegally registered cars that were smuggled from Braziland they exonerated road licenses.
Municipal officials participated in the latter. linked to the transit area of the Cerro Largo Intendancyand the economic damage of the maneuver amounts to $13 milliondetailed Caltieri.
They were arrested on Tuesday 17 people Within the framework of this operation, six officials from the Cerro Largo Intendancy. Caltieri indicated that the investigation began in November due to a complaint from the Municipality of Montevideo.
That day arrests were made in Melo, Piriápolis, City of the Coast and Montevideo.
Of the nine formalized, five are serving preventive detention and four are serving house arrest, some total and others only at night, they added from the judicial body. The other detainees were released but summoned by the Justice.
