Los Sauces, Hotesur, Seychelles and $ 4 million in Florence: what counts in her book Cristina Kirchner on corruption

But, to this are added several aspects of what happened under the two presidencies of the former president (2007-2015) and Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007), to which a large part of the society s & # 39, waiting for Cristina to give answers and explanations One of them is the corruption, which has been at the center of the scene for years with twelve prosecutions and six applications for pre-trial detention. The former head of state did not disappoint and chose to devote the Chapter 4, entitled "Family good", refute in detail the main charges against his person and his family members.

To begin her story, Cristina Kirchner turned to historical revisionism. He summarized how she and Nestor lived the time of Bonex 89 – before convertibility trading plan launched by the Menem government whereby the fixed terms of savers for public bonds were changed – and how she had anticipated the fact that she had to take her money back to the market. ;foreign. The former president ignored him and their savings were converted into debt securities, although over time they did not lose money but, on the contrary, charged a "very good difference" due to interest.

The same thing happened in 2001, before the social and economic explosion of Fernando De la Rúa. Once again, Cristina insisted on transforming the savings made abroad – to take the example of the Bonex plan – but Néstor, as in 1989, did not listen to it at first. According to the senator, when the situation precipitated, they managed to recover their money and repatriate it in 2003, while everything was "normalized". This was the boost the former president used to explain how they had arrived at Casa Rosada financially and how they had evolved for 12 years.

"In 2003, Néstor submitted his first sworn affidavit as chairman and, in section 4.6 of" Cash deposits and cash ", in the account type column, US dollar term deposits included sum of … U $ 4,387,674. I repeat: in 2003, Néstor had already declared having cash deposits for more than $ 4 million. However, they were tired of saying that Nestor and I had arrived poor in government, but we left rich. It is not like that. We never get bad at any position in the public service. And less to the Presidency of the Nation, "he began.

In an almost chronological narrative, Cristina recalls an article in the newspaper La Nación, published seven days before Nestor took office. he is defined at marriage as lawyers who have "done very well". And he stresses, in a textual manner, how the morning newspaper of Buenos Aires refers to his legal study: "The Most Prosperous Law Firm in the Province."

The reference to the phrase "successful attorney" that the ex-president evoked at a Harvard conference in 2012 is inevitable and, of course, she uses it for s & # 39; 39 Exonerate: "What will it look like, the term" successful attorney "was not my originality at Harvard University, during the lecture I gave there in 2012 and that the hegemonic media and the opposition have ridiculed. It's like that that they are contradictory and manipulative. "

Cristina then discusses the year 2008, where, she baderts, "we have tried everywhere to link our personal fortune to corruption, to the search for a fallacious origin or a suspicious growth of our heritage".

First, he stops at the charges of illicit enrichment: "There were three. The one who was treated by the court of Julian Ercolini in 2008, in which I was sent back; another, at the court of Norberto Oyarbide, in which experts were made with the intervention of the expert body of the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation, and in which I was also fired; and the third of the court of Rodolfo Canicoba Corral that ended in 2012, also with a dismissal ".

"It is understood, is not it?" As chairman, three lawsuits were filed against me for illicit enrichment, still causing opposition complaints, and all resulted in layoffs, "he summarizes.

From there, the head of Unidad Ciudadana pbades to the files opened during the government of Cambiemos, which rejects categorically: arrival of Mauricio Macri to the government directly they began to invent causes against me, they are always open. "

And he enumerates: "The one mentioned Memorandum of understanding with Iran; the decision of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic to postpone, as a measure strictly within its competence, the purchase of a future dollar to deactivate the last exchange made before the 2015 presidential elections; the cause referred to in illicit badumptions in carrying out public works of the national highway in the province of Santa Cruz, during my governments; those referred to the family estate for renting our properties to El Calafate and Puerto Madero: Hotesur S.A and Los Sauces S.A; and the cause of photocopies of the notebooks – which have never been published – by the driver Oscar Centeno ".

For the Hotesur and Los Sauces business, Cristina Kirchner explains in detail how they obtained with Néstor the properties they own, including the hotels, which are at the heart of the charge.

"On February 3, 1997, I bought our first land in El Calafate, where we built our house. pay $ 10.50 per square meter, the same price my neighbors paid: one known radical and anti-Kirchner said and confessed the other ", to start

Until then, the couple had no property in this city because the lack of infrastructure did not make it very touristy. But with the construction of the airport in 2000 and with the international promotion when Néstor became president –were Lula Da Silva, then president of Brazil, and the kings of Spain, Sofia and Juan Carlos de Borbón, the Kirchner strengthened their presence.

"In 2004, we decided to build, in the yard of our house, a Patagonian style guest house, with six rooms. The house was so beautiful that Néstor was excited and offered to build two more houses and a clubhouse for rent. That is to say, to rent to real estate what we had always done. This is how was born the Hotel Los Sauces – Casa Patagónica. We rent it for ten years to Juan Carlos Relats businessman, owner of the Panamericano hotels in Buenos Aires and Bariloche, and another hotel whose name I do not remember, in Corrientes … among other companies, "continues Cristina.

According to him, under the direction of Relats, Los Sauces has been transformed into "luxury international hotel" in Santa Cruz ", where they were housed, among others, the Swedish king Gustavus Adolph, the famous American businessman Paul Getty and even the actor George Clooney.

It's from that that they created the company Los Sauces S.A., "We did it to accompany our decision to settle later in a definitive way in El Calafate, already transformed into a large tourist village. The function was to manage the badets of our family. "

According to Cristina's explanation, in 2007, the problem of valuation of its badets was posed. It turns out that after this year, a group of "rulers and activists" badaulted and insulted Alicia Kirchner in a restaurant in Rio Gallegos, capital of Santa Cruz, Nestor decided to sell all the properties that he owned. they owned in this city. The difference between the tax value that they had bought and the market value that they sold was behind all the opposition's complaints.

"When selling this large amount of properties, not to tax values, but to their market value, there was a growth close to 140% year-on-year. Obviously, the inheritance remained the same; what had increased was its selling price in the market, since the tax value was always much lower than the market value. This real but legal violation is the one on which the denunciations of our political opponents are based, of course the illicit enrichment. At the time of the expert opinion in 2009, in which even the experts of the Supreme Court of Justice participated – because this was done with the highest body of experts of the Nation – it was determined that there was no illicit enrichment. This case, which had been brought before the court of Norberto Oyarbide, was rejected ", condemn the former president.

This was resumed in 2016, when Macri was already in power, in what Cristina describes as persecution: "They decided to consider our government as an illicit badociation." Yes, in its wording: a government elected by 54% of the votes. became, in its totality, an illicit badociation, what did they do? They appealed to the "judge" Bonadio and invented a case and bailed out another: Los Sauces y Hotesur – also created by Bonadio during my tenure as president – respectively. Both causes were for real estate rentals to contractors bound by contracts with the State: Lázaro Báez and Cristóbal López ".

And he adds, to emphasize what is for her a cruelty to his person: "Incredible! Both causes -Los Sauces y Hotesur-, por the market price rents for the real estate we own, Entrepreneurs who, among their many activities, also had contracts with the state, were referred to Federal Court No. 10, by Julian Ercolini. Yes, the same judge who, in 2011, we were fired in the case of the rental of the hotel Los Sauces – Casa Patagonica, with the businessman Juan Carlos Relats ".

In this fragment of the book, Cristina Kirchner gave her version of her alleged trip to the tax haven, where she suspected that she had gone to leave money for corruption. According to his story, it all began when the newspaper La Nación claimed that he had stopped in the islands during the flight back from his official visit to Vietnam. The accusation was that he should have signed papers related to a supposed Néstor company with businessman Lázaro Báez, called Aldyne, created by the Panamanian studio Mossack Fonseca.

The former head of state explained the reasons for his stop in Seychelles: "It was a technical stop … of only thirteen hours that was published in the Official Journal Yes … The stopover in Seychelles has was included in the Presidential Decree of 10 January 2013 on my visit to Vietnam, where details of the journey, procession and stopovers were recorded in Victoria and the Republic of Seychelles. Indeed, it was not a simple fuel load scale, but stopping was mandatory to supplement the minimum rest time of the pilots – the thirteen hours mentioned.

Jorge Lanata and Cbad 13 also received criticism: "It could not be less and he sent his animator to the islands to show" the luxury and wonders of Seychelles ", where I had supposedly spent the night. He was lucky to be the presenter of Grupo Clarín, who visited a beautiful beach for two days for multimedia. "

"In E-banking: Does someone need to travel somewhere to transfer money? Please …", the senator concluded the saga on his supposed trip.

The $ 4 million from Florence's account

In July 2016, following a procedure ordered by Judge Julián Ercolini in Banco Galicia, the safety deposit boxes were opened on behalf of Florencia Kirchner and were found. $ 4,664,000, who encouraged a complaint against the daughter of the former president. The opposition and a large part of society have directly linked the finding to corruption.

The explanation of the presence of this sum in an account in the name of his daughter, Cristina, left for the end of the chapter. To do this, the former public servant That goes back to February 2016, when the government devalued the currency and the dollar reached $ 15.80. It has therefore decided to dollarize all its fixed deadlines in Galicia.

And precise: "The traceability of the fixed terms has been perfectly determined not only in the bank, but also in all affidavits before the anti-corruption office, before the AFIP and in the estate file ".

"At that time, fixed-term certificates were all denominated in pesos.In 2012, when our government ordered that the regulation on purchases of foreign currency, baptized by the opposition and the press as" exchange rate " We have among the Fixed deadlines, one of more than 3 and a half million dollars, published on the occasion by an opposition media, I then decided to undo the position in foreign currency and move to a fixed term in pesos, with the certainty of consistency between what is said and what is done. In summary: until the year 2012, we had more than 3 and a half million dollars in foreign exchange and important fixed conditions in pesos, with a traceability banking, tax and judicial, which has continued to generate interest until we decided to convert it permanently. in cash dollars, in 2016 ", warns.

And full: "The fixed terms in pesos were, as always for all these years, to the bank Galicia, the one that sold us the cash dollars placed in the safes … which bank? … Galicia. The money never left the bank, there is a continuity line without cracks. Why safes in the name of Florence, my daughter? Very simple: Máximo and I lived in Río Gallegos and Florence was the only person who lived in Buenos Aires to follow this personal procedure. "

After the clarification, Cristina points the finger at the opposition: "I never thought that infamy and hurt could rage with my daughter as they did." Bonadio, the judicial killer, who during several raids had removed all kinds of documents, among which was one of the fixed terms converted into dollars, he illegally handed over to MP Margarita Stolbizer, who lodged a complaint against my daughter, as if the money in the safes was illegal. "

"The goal was achieved and my daughter, the daughter of Néstor Kirchner, who, when he became president in 2003, had already declared more than $ 4 million in term certificates, which the newspaper La Nación had recognized as a family of fortune, product of a "successful legal study", as defined in writing … our daughter, who was with his brother the forced heiress of all the property of his father, was stigmatized as if she had committed a crime. I have no doubt. The premeditation and planning of defamation is based on an obsession: the stigmatization of popular leaders, "concludes Cristina Kirchner.