They sued Cristina Kirchner for cartelisation of public works and tolls – Telam

Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio continued today the former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former government officials and more than a hundred businessmen in two cases related to the cause of notebooks, in which he investigated the alleged payment of bribes by companies that operated toll roads under the Kirchner government.

Among the business leaders treated by the so-called cartelization of public works, we find inmates Lázaro Báez (Grupo Austral), Gerardo Ferreyra (Electroengineering), Fabián De Sousa and Cristóbal López (Grupo Indalo) that Bonadio judged with in pre-trial detention.

The purpose of the investigation into the alleged cartelization of Public Works is to determine whether the largest companies in the country have unlawfully partnered with former public servants to organize bids.

"It is a corruption machine which, at the national level, was installed from the beginning of the presidency of Nestor Carlos Kirchner, remained anchored in our Argentine Republic, without any break of continuity, for more than twelve years, "said the judge. in the failure of 678 pages, he referred to the cartelization of works.

For this part of the investigation, Bonadio prosecuted without previous incarceration the former president of the Argentine Chamber of Construction, Carlos Wagner, and businessmen Aldo Roggio (Benito Roggio and Son), Hugo Eurnekian (Helport), Osvaldo Acosta (Electroengineering), Juan Chediak, Ángel Calcaterra and Javier Sánchez Caballero (IECSA) and Juan Carlos de Goychoechea (Isolux), among others.

Wagner, repented of the notebook business, spoke before Judge Bonadio and Attorney Carlos Stornelli about the cartelization of public works and the bribing of businessmen to officials .

For the cartelization of public works, Bonadio also sued the financier Ernesto Clarens who, as a repentant, recounted "how the collection mechanism was orchestrated by (the former Federal Planning Minister) Julio Miguel de Vido-, of which they were part of the most important construction companies of the country, as well as of the highest authorities of the national executive power ".

With regard to the alleged cartelization, Bonadio sued the former president in court "for crimes of pbadive bribery, recalled in one thousand and twenty-seven (1,027) facts, of which seven hundred (701) as a co-perpetrator and three one hundred and twenty six (326) as a necessary participant ".