Echegaray was acquitted in the case initiated by Prat Gay after filtering hidden accounts in Switzerland

In July 2015, AFIP determined the fees for approximately $ 250 million to Amalia Amoedo, granddaughter of "Amalita", for the detection of undeclared funds, as a result of a cause arising from known filtering of account data numbered by Hervé Falciani in a case of global resonance.

With the change of government, the Minister of Finance has accused Echegaray and former officials Pedro Roveda and Horacio Curien for breach of secrets, false testimony aggravated, abuse of authority and breach of duties. The former minister said in his complaint that former AFIP employees who had handled the complaint had lied by imputing undeclared accounts to the Fortabat family, himself as an attorney.

In 2016, Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio sued the former head of the agency as the instigator for instigating AFIP officials to lodge a complaint against Prat Gay, while Curien and Roveda were considered co-perpetrators of the crime of false testimony.

At the same time, in another jurisdiction, Amoedo and Prat Gay were dismissed in the case presented by the Public Treasury pending before the Economic Criminal Court of Verónica Strachia. In addition, The $ 250-million recovery request was set aside and AFIP was ordered to bear the legal costs, estimated at 15% of this amount.

A few months later, Chamber I of the Federal Chamber overturned the prosecution against Bonadio for crimes of breach of secrecy and false testimony, although Echegaray had already been forced to resign from his position as head of the court. 39; National General Audit (AGN). a cataract of questions.

The cameramen Jorge Ballestero and Eduardo Freile they considered that "no criminal offense" was prevented for using the information transmitted to the AFIP to file a complaint that "It should be noted that the call is being registered with a large number of people. " an investigation statement.

For the camera, use "information sent by France to prepare the complaint filed in the economic criminal court" This was included in the exceptions to the obligation to keep the secret, for which there was no crime.

In this context, this Friday a hearing was held at TOF 4 which defined the acquittal of the accused by the former deputy of Cambiemos Prat Gay.

Echegaray's defense came with the request to revoke the four alleged crimes and requested testimony to advance another criminal case involving the conduct of officials of the DGI Ezio Dino De Lazzer and María Jimena Magno and his direct supervisors as well as AFIP officials who had an "incidence" in the actions that harmed the Treasury and the agency itself.

In turn, the lawyers of Echegaray have requested the opening of a criminal investigation into a possible abuse of power by Prat Gay for the alleged acts at the beginning of the case and for the reopening of alleged tax crimes that did not prescribe the cause. It was in the hands of Judge Straccia.

Echegaray said the cause of Prat Gay was a political persecution

"It ended some of the process of political persecution against me," said Echegaray after hearing the verdict, which will be known on November 8, as announced by the judges, who also acquitted Curian and Roveda.

"The persecution in this case was due to the offshore financial system headed by the former Minister of the Economy of Macri," Echegaray said at the end of the hearing in which he got the favorable verdict.

"The 68 million dollars detected (from Fortabat) could not be validated as declared in Geneva (Switzerland)," said the former head of AFIP and announced that he would work on an action for damages against Prat Gay.

"When there is evidence, such as the expertise gained at this trial, it is proven that everything was armed.It can be shown that the reported funds have never been reported in AFIP" said Echegaray.

"For this reason, I had to leave the AGN, where I was going to work with the mission to control the executive power, that is why, with this cause, they achieved their goal policy", The former head of the AFIP said.

Prat Gay's complaint had required 12 years in prison for Echegaray for inculcating false accusations, abuse of power and breach of secrecy; Although the prosecutor Dafne Palópoli claimed only 2 years and did not charge instigator of the false complaint. Finally, the judges of TOF 4, Néstor Costabel, Gabriela López Iñíguez and Daniel Obligado, resolved the acquittals.