A municipality of 3,000 inhabitants of Cerro Largo gave 8,970 driving notebooks in three years. After the judicial investigation, prosecutor Leticia Siqueira formalized five people.
Before the controversy detected by the new mayor, the Isidoro Noblía authorities specified the exact figures behind the request of reports.
Within the framework of the controversy for an excessive amount of notebooks in relation to its inhabitants, the municipality of Isidoro Noblía (Cerro Largo) shared the final figures, in which it follows that between November 1, 2021 and March 31, 2025 awarded a total of 8,970. There are 3,005 people who live that town.
The figures were provided after the mayor Pablo Guarino made a report of reports. Of the total, 4,663 were granted (in different categories) for drivers who processed the document for the first time
In justice
Given the complaints made, the echo was informed by the spokesman of the Prosecutor’s Office, Javier Benech, that “the prosecutor Leticia Siqueira de Cerro Largo formalized eight people for the issue of driving notebooks. The typified crimes are association to commit crimes, qualified bribery and forgery of public document.”
In principle they were five people. And the prosecutor specified that “these are three municipal officials and two individuals. With respect to two people, the preventive detention for 180 days and with respect to three of them house arrest for the same period were arrested. The investigation continues with more people detained.”
He closed saying that “people with preventive detention are a municipal official and an individual. People with total house arrest with ankle are two municipal officials and one individual.”
Despite the information that precedes, the spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office, Javier Benech, reported on the morning of Thursday, August 21, that “there are three people more accused of the alleged maneuvers with driving notebooks. The three people were already sentenced in abbreviated process. One of them with prison and the other two with freedom to the test.”
One of the accused is the former mayor of that town, the nationalist Favio Freire.
