They acquitted Ricardo Echegaray for the alleged false complaint against Alfonso Prat Gay

Ricardo Echegaray, former head of the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), has been acquitted this Friday at the trial for the alleged false complaint that in 2014 the fundraising presented against Alfonso Prat Gay, opposition leader at the time, Mauricio Macri's finance minister until 2017.

Federal Court 4 heard the last words of Ricardo Echegaray and two former officials placed in his orbit, Horacio Curien and Pedro Roveda. In this way, before the 13th, the verdict handed down by the judges was announced Guillermo Costabel, Maria Gabriela López Iñíguez and Daniel Obligado.

The case examined the use, by the AFIP, of confidential tax information to criminally report Alfonso Prat Gay. At that time, the economist was accused of being part of a group unlawful association who escaped taxes thanks to two bank accounts in Switzerland of the family of the deceased businesswoman Amalia Lacroze of Fortabat, to whom the former finance minister had entrusted the management of finances.

Criminal and economic justice rejected the complaint and the former Macrista official filed a complaint against Echegaray. The defense of Prat Gay I had asked for a 12-year sentence for the crime of inducing false testimony, breach of secrecy and abuse of power.

For his part, the prosecutor Dafne Palópoli accused Echegaray of violation of fiscal secrecy and abuse of power, and asked for a two-year suspended sentence and four years of inability to hold a public office.

During the investigation, prosecutor Carlos Stornelli said that Echegaray had obtained this information as a result of an agreement with France considering tax secrecy. However, the former manager disclosed this information in a report and at a press conference.

At the time of receiving this charge, in 2016, Echegaray was responsible for the National General Audit, where he arrived after his departure from AFIP due to the arrival of Mauricio Macri at Casa Rosada . But the complaint against him cost him the charge and from then on, abandoned the civil service.