Uruguay
The Broad Front Will Analyze Measures Over the Conviction of an Adviser to a National Party Councilor
The political force convened councilors and lawmakers to study the scope of the case and define possible actions. The decision comes after the conviction of Pablo Leiva in the framework of Operation Trazador.
The Broad Front decided to convene a working meeting with its councilors and lawmakers to prepare a document that will later be reviewed by its Political Board, with the aim of defining possible measures in response to the case of an adviser to a National Party councilor convicted of drug trafficking, la diaria reported.
According to that outlet, the decision was adopted by the political force’s Executive Secretariat, which proposed moving forward “in all the spaces where it corresponds.”
The case came to light after Operation Trazador, in which police seized more than 260 kilos of drugs, weapons, vehicles and cash from a house in Brazo Oriental, in Montevideo. Among those detained was Pablo Leiva, who until then had been working as adviser to National Party councilor Gonzalo Gómez.
According to la diaria, Leiva was convicted of money laundering and internal trafficking of ammunition to a sentence of two years and six months in prison.
The publication also noted that police are investigating the use of a branch of a payment collection network as part of the money-laundering scheme. That agency appears in the sworn statement filed in August last year by Jorge Gandini before the Public Transparency and Ethics Board in the name of his wife, Laura Scalabrino Muga, as marital property. Gandini is scheduled to make public statements this Tuesday.
In the resolution accessed by la diaria, the Broad Front said the risk of criminal organizations’ funds penetrating the system requires defending institutions and the reliability of the political system. In that context, the political force said it will seek to learn in depth the scope of the events, activate oversight mechanisms and promote political initiatives, including regulation of party financing.
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