The mayor of Paysandú, Nicolás Olivera, was reported to Jutep for having traveled to Italy with tickets paid for by the Teyma company, shortly before granting that company management of the municipal landfill.
The complaint was presented by the councilor of the Frente Amplio Andrés Imperial.
The data on which it is based are contained in a response from the Paysandú Municipality itself to a request for access to public information presented by Federico Álvarez Petraglia, former judge and former secretary general of the Municipality during the final stretch of the Frente-Amplista administration (2015-2020).
In his request, Álvarez Petraglia asked if Olivera had traveled to Italy between November 1 and 8, 2025 and, if so, who had been responsible for the expenses.
The Mayor’s Office responded that he had traveled and that the tickets had been paid for by Teyma.
Olivera, according to the response, traveled to participate in the Ecomondo fair in the city of Rimini, which is one of the most important fairs in Europe dedicated to the circular economy, environmental sustainability and the ecological transition. The trip did not entail any expense for the Municipality. Olivera returned 2,000 euros as travel expenses, it was added.
“Days after returning from his trip to Italy, the mayor decided to terminate the contract that united the Municipality and the company Sandeco, which was in charge of managing the municipal landfill,” says Imperial’s complaint to Jutep. “It was my surprise, capital letter, when also in that access to public information, it was reported that the mayor, without prior bidding and through direct award, had handed over the management of the landfill to the company Teyma, the same company that months before had paid for his trip to Italy.”
Olivera consulted by The Observersaid that the mayor’s complaint is written “with suspicion” and omits important data. He pointed out that when he responds to Jutep “everything will be clarified.”
“It is the same modus operandi from the last period, the same people generating complaints,” he added. “It seems that more than a concern for ethics in public office, this is a political concern. It is a complaint like all those that have been made before, which never end in anything. They are always flying straws.”
Olivera said that everything that has been done is audited by the Court of Accounts and that the request for a license for the trip was approved by the Departmental Board.
