2023-11-02 06:18:00
He Foreign Minister of Uruguay, Francisco Bustilloresigned this Wednesday after leaking the audios in which he allegedly searches hide a communication about the danger of drug dealer Uruguayan Sebastian Marset within the framework of the processing of your passport.
“Things are not as they have been shown, but they are sensitive enough to have presented the immediate resignation to the president (Luis Lacalle Pou“), Bustillo said in a statement accessed by the agency AFP.
Foreign Ministry sources said that communicated his resignation in a telephone call to Lacalle Pouwhich is located in the United States.
Bustillo announced his decision after former Vice Chancellor Carolina Ache testified this morning in the case initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office regarding alleged irregularities in the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to Marset in November 2021.
Marset, now a fugitive from Justice, requested a Uruguayan passport in October 2021, and obtained it at the end of November of that year while he was detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for having tried to leave the country with a false Paraguayan passport.
Upon leaving the prosecutor’s office this Wednesday, Ache told reporters that he had gone “to collaborate with the investigation so that once and for all the facts are clarified and the whole truth is known.”
“I was the only politician in this government who resigned and went home.. And paradoxically, it was not because he had done something wrong or because he had done something illegal. Quite the opposite. “It was because I was not willing to hide communications from Justice and for having refused to commit a crime,” she stated.
Ache submitted his resignation on December 19, 2022, amid a scandal over the spread of a WhatsApp chat on November 3, 2021 in which the number two of the Ministry of the Interior, Guillermo Macieldescribed Marset as “a very dangerous and heavy drug trafficker”“.
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What Maciel said to Ache contradicted the words of Bustillo, who, questioned on the subject in the Senate on August 22, 2022, had pointed out: “In November (2021), Who among all of us knew who Marset was?“.
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Ache reiterated on Wednesday that he had “no” participation or interference in the processing of Marset’s passport. However, he said that he notified the office in charge of the procedure “that it was about someone dangerous“as soon as Maciel informed him.
“What I realize later is that “Everyone already knew what it was about long before I did.”, he added at a press conference. Ache declined to give details of his statement to the prosecution.
But later, audios of telephone conversations and chat messages that he presented as evidence, broadcast by the weekly Search and confirmed by various means, show that Bustillo sought to hide from Justice the exchange between Ache and Maciel about Marset.
“You lost your cell phone,” Bustillo recommends to Ache in one of the audiosthat according Search It is from November 14, 2022.
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In another fragment of the conversation, Bustillo calls Maciel “moron” several timespointing out that if he released the chats “he would shoot himself in the foot.”
Bustillo also refers to a meeting to coordinate the strategy for interpellation in the Senate, which was also attended by the communication advisor to the Presidency, Roberto Lafluf.
According to SearchAche also said that Lafluf asked her to delete the messages.
In the statement in which he informed of his resignation, Bustillo denies any illegality in the passport process for Marset. “Of course, I didn’t lie or deviate from the truth in the parliamentary questioning either,” she says.
“The Dr. Ache decontextualized conversations and acted in bad faith“Adds Bustillo.
Bustillo, who must testify on Friday before the Prosecutor’s Office in the same case in which Ache did, then promised to “shed light on the veracity of what was done and on the distorted story that has been given.”
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