Justice investigates complaints about municipal bidding
The former mayor of Treinta y Tres, Gerardo Amaral (Frente Amplio), testify today before a judge of that department that investigates alleged irregularity in a bid to repair the roof of the municipal theater during his administration (2005-2010).
Amaral, who in May 2010 the provincial government lost at the hands of nationalist appear as a witness before Judge Elisa Zurbruck, who handled a complaint by a group of aldermen.
The judicial inquiry aims to establish whether there was crime when the Municipality of Thirty-three contractors to perform renovation work at the local theater to construction company which was connected the husband of a chief of the administration of Amaral.
The company was also contracted to carry out other works in the department. And the consultant firm, who is married to the former village chief, he also held a leadership position at the beginning of the previous period.
In 2009, organized by the opposition, Amaral attended the Departmental Board to provide explanations for the contract for this work.
The mayor then said to the magistrates who took the necessary precautions so that the wife of the chief adviser to the contractor did not participate in any instance of the tendering of the works in the theater district, which cost about U.S. $ 100,000.
Today, in addition to Amaral, the judge and prosecutor Zurbruck deputy Sandra Fleitas, will return to the former municipal chief an architect of the Administration of Thirty-Three, among others who were also cited by the judicial seat from the time 9.
Although all shall stand as witnesses, it is possible that in future any of them happens to have the quality to be investigated and cited again but with the requirement to report accompanied by a lawyer, according to sources in the case to the country. The controversy led
tender in 2009, the former mayor Amaral was questioned at the Departmental Board of Thirty-Three by Alexandre Pinho colorado mayor.
http://www.elpais.com.uy/110216/pnacio-547702/politica/ex-intendente-citado-por-obra-en-treinta-y-tres/ El Pais Digital
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