Lacalle Pou’s ex-wife testified after the espionage scandal involving the Uruguayan president

Lorena Ponce de León, ex-wife of the president of UruguayLuis Lacalle Pou, denied this Thursday before the Attorney General’s Office that he felt “harassed or a victim of gender violence” after the espionage scandal that broke out last week after learning that the former presidential custodian Alejandro Astesiano ordered the police to reveal details about a foreign trip of the first lady.

Ponce de León testified before the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati and denied having felt harassedconfirmed to The country prosecution sources. Last week, chats from the month of July were revealed in which Astesiano consulted the deputy executive director of the Police, Jorge Berriel, for details of a trip to Miami by Ponce de León, of whom the president He has been separated since May.

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After these messages came out, Ponce de León denied before Fossati “having felt violated or a victim of gender violence”added the prosecutor’s sources, as reported The Observer.

“After speaking, I have no doubt that there was no situation of violence, or control, just care. And I am a person trained to detect gender violence ”, Fossati declared to the media.

Sources from the Prosecutor’s Office added that Fossati expressed his “annoyance” for the leak of this matter and that the subject continues to be discussed. The country tried unsuccessfully to contact the prosecutor.

“We have reserved mode to find out Lorena Ponce de León”, sent Alejandro Astesiano on July 4 to Berriel, indicating that he was in Colombia. On that date, the president had made an official trip where he met with his peer at that time, Iván Duque.

Astesiano responded in the Prosecutor’s Office that The first lady did not report the destination or the date of her trip and added that, at that time, the President of the Republic was facing separation from his spouse.

The former presidential custodian explained to Fossati and his team that Ponce de León’s security was also part of his job duties because they were the direct relatives of Lacalle Pou.

As explained by sources of the case to The countryAstesiano acknowledged in the Prosecutor’s Office that the first lady had not asked him for custody during his trip abroad.

The prosecutor, then, asked Astesiano if he had finally implemented a security system during the trip. According to the sources, Astesiano’s response was forceful: “It was not implemented, because the president did not want to bother her. We wanted to do it. It was at a time when their separation was complicated from a media point of view.

Astesiano was already at the center of a scandal after being arrested for being involved, allegedly, in a criminal plot for which documentation was falsified to provide Uruguayan passports to Russians. However, the controversy over this man had already been installed since at least 2020, when his police file had been made public. In August of that year it was reported that the head of presidential custody had a file with more than 20 annotations.

Source: Elcomercio

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