After six years, Florencia Kirchner is reappointed to the board of directors of a family business

Six years have passed since the Kirchner family last appointed authorities to Hotesur SA, the hotel firm investigated for money laundering. In the weeks following his return to take over the management of the company, the lawyer Carlos beraldi informed the Federal Oral Court 5 (TOF 5) that an ordinary meeting had taken place during which Florencia Kirchner was appointed Deputy Director, a position she held in 2014 and 2015.

The vice-president’s daughter is being sued for money laundering operations exceeding $ 130 million, in the so-called Hotesur (hotel business) and Los Sauces (real estate) cases and has always claimed to be outside the operation of family businesses. These cases are submitted to an oral procedure but with an uncertain start date, in charge of the Federal Oral Court 5 (TOF 5).

Hotesur SA is the company dedicated to the hotel industry. Its commercial diamond is difficult, according to the commissioner appointed by justice. He pointed out that in addition, the task was complex during these years, as the company lacked “shareholders’ proxy”because there were rental contracts that “could harm the interests of Hostesur”. Shareholders or their representation “were always absent from these relevant issues,” said the court report.

Is it the company that owns the Alto Calafate hotel, which Lázaro Báez managed since the Kirchners bought it until July 2013, was headless until last week, when, in an ordinary assembly, new authorities were appointed. As president, a post that Romina Mercado – daughter of Alicia Kirchner – held, Sebastián José Sánchez was appointed, and as deputy director of Florencia Kirchner.

To date, no authority has been appointed, because under Maximo Kirchner and his sister they refused to do so before the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) on the pretext that they considered themselves victims of political persecution.

At an ordinary meeting, they confided the same accusation to Florencia Kirchner, whom she detained between 2014 and 2015 and who somehow ended up implicating her in the case where money laundering maneuvers were investigated for 80 million pesos.

It is in this case that justice removed six million dollars which were in a safe in the name of Florencia Kirchner. The investigation concluded that could not explain the origin of this silver, which remains heat-sealed and in judicial custody at the Central Bank.

Even when Florencia went to Cuba to be treated for her medical problems, it was assumed that she was taking refuge in Havana to avoid ending up in jail. The girl was the only one at that time without jurisdiction.

The situation of Hostesur, owner of the Alto Calafate hotel and where Florencia now occupies her new position, is catastrophic. According to Controller Hotesur, Daniel Altman is a company “ineffective”.

According to the controller the profitability of the hotel is “well below that of the market” on the basis of the documentation obtained and analyzed.

Said more. The hotel, at the discretion of the controller, charged youn “absurd monthly rent” in the 2018/2019 season. The rental amount was even lower than that paid by Lázaro Báez, who was primarily responsible for the operation of Kirchner hotels through his company Valle Miter SRL.

In March of last year, the vice president’s daughter dumped on social media, where She accused the government of Mauricio Macri and the federal justice of having made her sick. She remained in Cuba for over a year under medical treatment.

“Every time the macrismo spawned a new meltdown, I knew it was a week of my name being slandered all over, Justice orangutans walking into my house and doing with me whatever they wanted, outside of any legal framework, “said Florencia Kirchner. He added on this occasion:” It had become a systematic plan. They made me sick, yes, but they never made me hate my name. “

Money laundering charges

The former president and her sons Máximo and Florencia Kirchner are accused of being part of a “recycling process which, with illicit funds from public works and through the firm Valle Miter de Báez, was developed between 2008 and 2013“.

During the investigation of the Hotesur case, the prosecutor Gérard promised He argued that a money laundering program had been put in place “on the basis of the hotel business” aimed at giving it “a certain semblance of legitimacy”, which ensured that they could report these funds. in front of the Anti-Corruption Bureau and in front of the Treasury “hiding their true origin” supposedly illicit.

Máximo and Florencia Kirchner participated in this alleged scheme, according to the indictment. Due to the roles they held on the board from where various business decisions were made.

According to the indictment, everything functioned as an “organization” which allowed “transfer and conceal part of the profits that were in the hands of entrepreneurs to the former presidents themselves and to their family nucleus through loans, the purchase of properties, the rental of the various hotel complexes they own, the construction of improvements in said establishments and the rental of properties ”

It all ended with income from funds for the K inheritance. Between 2009 and July 2013, Báez guaranteed the Kirchners 27,592,110 pesos for rentals at Hotesur SA. To this must be added the rental of rooms that seven companies of the Austral group have never used.

The number is important, but there is a greater proportion of savings in the total income of the family business. 54% of Alto Calafate’s income came from Grupo Austral, which in turn was Santa Cruz’s main public works contractor.

The case concerned Los Sauces SA, the real estate company whose national deputy was designated as the “organizer” of the illegal association. In real estate, after the death of Nestor Kirchner, his daughter joined Los Sauces, and provided “his approval and approval of the illegal operation that his parents and brother had set up through his father’s businesses and personal property ”.

The prosecution also argued that as a vice-president of the real estate company and an employee of it, Florencia “took care of the acquisition of properties and withdrew money which was previously applied to hotel and real estate activities where the organization recycled illicit funds ”.