The factory, located in the department of Salto, had been inaugurated by President Luis Lacalle Pou in 2020. It was sponsored as “the largest medicinal cannabis drying plant in Latin America’ But in 2023 it stopped operating and fired all its workers.
The two investors in the project were a Canadian businessman and a lawyer who had put up $27 million. After the plant closed, they sued Aguiar for fraud. Now, the First Round Competition Court of Montevideo ordered the “en bloc sale’ of the establishment.