Marcelo Balcedo: "I think that the cause will fall and that they will declare it null"

Trade unionist and businessman Marcelo Balcedo gave an interview to a Uruguayan television channel (Channel 10) shortly after the justice of the peace decided to extend his trial for 30 days, in which he was charged of Money laundering, internal arms trafficking and smuggling.

Balcedo recounted how occurred the events that led to his capture in Uruguay and to Argentina's extradition request, events occurring in 2018. "There is a commissioner here who told the judge in Argentina that when I got back on the plane (in Uruguay) I had come down with three Paraguayans who had told the aeronautical police that I wanted to flee to Paraguay, which is obviously a lie. It is clear that had he loved my wife and me in Argentina, we would have had it the week before, "he said.

It's defined as "an entrepreneurial engineer transformed into a syndicalist ", and he explained his trade union activity: "This is the union my father founded 60 years ago and it seemed to me that the president had to be someone who had no other interest. than to help his colleagues. " When asked if he was not earning money with his trade unionist, Balcedo said, "At age 32, he had an estate of almost $ 15 million, how was Punta del Este manufactured? the houses we see in Argentina? a lot of money is black, money that has not paid taxes. Uruguay in this agreement. "

Asked to know if he had declared everything he had in Uruguay, the former president of the Union of Workers and Employees of Minorities and Education (Soeme) not hesitate to answer: "No, in Argentina, I said what I had to declare, at the time., part of things. When in Argentina I was not obliged to declare, I did not declare"

He also referred to the money that the Uruguayan courts had seized ($ 6.2 million) and the fact that he was in three safes. "Much of the seized money comes from the Banco República (Uruguayan State Bank) .How can I take illegal money from banks here or Banco de La Nación in Argentina … I decided to keep it in a strong box because I did not have any confidence in the banks after what happened in my country ".

At the same time, he was confident of returning to Argentina. "I think I'm going back to my country, but not even extradited. I think the cause will fall, that they will declare it void and that Judge Kreplak will end up in jail, like many other federal judges. This has already happened with Oyarbide. "He maintains his position of nullity of the cause by the conditions of his raid: Balcedo says that what they have removed from his home near Punta del Este, including several luxury cars" has never been approved. for justice ".

At his trial, he stated that he did not know the prosecutor who had received the case, but that the previous ones "were a mix of evil people and donkeys". "The prosecutor who took the case now has seized it as a hairy gift," he said.

He added that the prosecutors in charge of the case had a great capacity of adjective: "Instead of justifying the facts, they treat you like a criminal, a syndicalist, an badbadin." They never treated me like a murderer. which my wife and I were murderers, I heard that I was silly in my life, but little like that. "