Smuggling of war material to Bolivia: the customs chapter

This newspaper was able to confirm that in the coming hours, the government will expand its complaint before the economic criminal judge Javier López Biscayart, after the activation of the fair. This will be a complement, based on the findings of the Bolivian authorities in the police warehouses.

And the central thing – which Ámbito puts forward – is that the documents that certify the batch numbers of the ammunition and gas grenades that the National Gendarmerie acquired through the Ministry of Security that Patricia Bullrich led to Fabricaciones Militares will be integrated. Articles, administrative support and discounts of the purchasing process during Macri management. These new data will be essential to contrast them with the results for Bolivia. If they match, half of the case will be resolved. Lot 08/18 which appears in the photographs of the 12.70 mm A / T cartridges was purchased by Bullrich from the Fray Luis Beltrán factory in November 2018.

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A number of issues have not yet been clarified. Who was responsible for loading and unloading the aircraft in El Palomar and La Paz? The military aircraft has a fixed crew which will be operated by 3 pilots and 7 crew members. The names of those who left at 11:20 p.m. on November 12, 2019 for the mission have not yet been brought to justice by the Defense Ministry headed by Agustín Rossi. They are the privileged witnesses of what was loaded on the Hercules. López Biscayart requested the film recordings from El Palomar Air Base. You wish each other good luck.

The airport authorized to operate commercial flights under the exclusive impetus of Guillermo Dietrich does not have cameras in the cargo areas. Another question that arises: who asked the commander of the gendarmerie Carlos Recalde to justify the inexistence of the 70,000 ammunition on July 15, 2020 by an internal note in which he asked for the dismissal of the sector of the administration of the forces? If in November 2019 the performance was under the command of Gerardo Otero and Bullrich, this scenario had changed eight months later.

But other suspicions have arisen around Customs. In AFIP chats, a capture allegedly from the social networks of Silvia Traverso, the current customs chief in the direction of Mercedes Marcó del Pont, has spread like wildfire. In it, a photo of her posing with friends and with former Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie is exhibited, expressing, in April 2016, that she described as “our friend”. Not insignificant fact: AFIP is the only one able to bring a civil action in a case before the economic criminal court whose cash flow has been affected, through Customs. Faurie is not yet on the preliminary list of accused prosecutor Claudio Navas Rial, but has been highlighted in the government complaint. Nor in principle, Diego Dávila (former Customs No. 1 with Leandro Cuccioli) and Eugenio Cozzi of the National Agency of Controlled Material (ANMAC), which authorized the shipment and depended on Germán Garavano.

López Biscayart requested the original SIGEA action n ° 12114-1135-2019 and inform those involved in its process. It is the document registered in the systems on the procedure. This file began on November 10, 2019, two days before the departure of Hercules. It was on the same Sunday that the heads of the Bolivian armed forces and police gave Evo Morales an ultimatum to resign. Approval for the temporary export – which bypassed a legal mechanism such as a presidential decree for ammunition – was passed to the Customs Legal Technical Subdirectorate headed by Gladys Morando. His subordinate signed the explanation for the shipment of the arsenal, from the export department. There, the temporary No. 19073PET1000103G was generated, which took place in front of the customs office in Ezeiza, on which El Palomar airport depends. López Biscayart requested cinematographic recordings of the customs control procedure. As Ámbito had argued, there are some “inconsistencies” in the documents.

That night, a specialist auditor from the electricity branch was appointed to El Palomar. Problem is, the handmade document contains an observation on “unshipped items” in the Hercules, referring to “gross” contention. admitted 48 to 72 hours after the operation. Could someone have post-dated the sighting in an attempt to disclaim all responsibility?

The truth is that the judge will have to reconstruct this chapter precisely to have proved whether there had been aggravated contraband retracing the stages of responsibility that the shipment had in customs. Only then could he reach Dávila and involve intermediate positions if it was proven that they were participating in the maneuver.