“History Professor Testifies in National Party Senator’s Sexual Offense Case”

Montevideo Portal

History professor Sebastián Mauvezín, accused of being the intermediary between the senator of the National Party Gustavo Penadés and the minors, testified last Thursday before the 6th Shift Prosecutor for Sexual Offenses, Alicia Ghione.

Mauvezín’s lawyer, Juan Carlos Fernández Lecchini, declared before the press that there are “indications of falsehood” in the chats that the Prosecutor’s Office has against the professor. There, as far as he could tell Montevideo Portal With sources of the case, there are dialogues that the defendant had with the victims in which they coordinated the day and time they would meet with Penadés. In addition, Mauvezín indicated to the minors how much money the senator was willing to pay.

The chats to which the defense had access had the names of the victims crossed out, because Ghione understood that he was not providing relevant information to the defense attorney. The informant clarified that the conversations that the Public Ministry has are not only those that transcended on social networks. “I suppose the lawyer is referring to those chats, because the ones in the folder have no falsehoods,” added the source, explaining that it is “perfectly verifiable” if the conversations are adulterated.

On the other hand, both the lawyer Fernández Lecchini and Javier Vega, defender of Penadés, lifted the investigative folders in the middle of the month, as reported Montevideo Portal.

The statements of the victims were not included in this documentation, since Ghione was waiting for more minors to testify. However, one day before the statement on Thursday, the prosecutor told the lawyers that they could pick them up.

Ghione is on his way to request the impeachment of Penadés and these days he will evaluate whether to request the imputation of the senator or limiting measures to the Justice.

Montevideo Portal