Another try for Amado Boudou, now for traveling expenses of the truffle in economy – 26/03/2019

Federal Judge Ariel Lijo dismissed the investigation and appeared in court, orally and publicly, the case where Amado Boudou accused of embezzlement for the badumption of entertainment expenses with apocryphal bills when he was Minister of the Economy.

A few months ago, after a new investigation, Lijo decided to extend the pursuit of embezzlement against the former vice-prosecutor, and then the prosecutor Jorge Di Lello asked that the file is filed at trial. Now, the magistrate has terminated the investigation and He sued Boudou, Guido Forcieri and Cachi Romano.

Amado Boudou, again a prisoner in Ezeiza prison, is accused in this case of paying expenses "with apocryphal bills and with lying amounts for possible expenses recorded, that they justify by falsified vouchers presented at the time of the delivery of the expenses of the files concerned ".

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The latest information added to the file has led to an extension of the processing. The documentation concerned the translator Ana Ruth Juárez, who, at the request of Judge Lijo, had indicated that the amount of the invoice presented in Economy for 3,050 euros was not exact. "The translation services are charged between 600 and 1000 euros" at most, he said. While acknowledging that he had carried out part of the task badigned to him in February 2011 under the G-20, he stressed that she "never" charged this amount.

The interpreter attended the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Paris and, according to the Ministry of Economy, billed these services for 3,050 euros, "which was unknown of the aforementioned interpreter ".

"The counterfeit bill was recorded as Exhibit 3 in the aforementioned administrative record," said Lijo at the time.

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In the enlargement of the charge against the former vice president of Cristina Kirchner, the judge detected new bills for contentious charges: about 23,800 euros in translation and accommodation costs in Paris between 2010 and 2011.

In this context, Boudou will face another oral trial. He had previously been convicted and arrested for the sale of the former Ciccone printing press, and faces a double lawsuit for the transfer of a car with apocryphal papers and the irregular acquisition of high-end cars when he was minister of the economy. Now add a new elevated cause to the next instance.

The first lawsuit in the case involved the apocryphal papers used for the transfer of a vehicle in the 1990s, but the offense was prescribed during the oral proceedings. However, the cbadation decided that this trial had to be redone. Then he was prosecuted by Ciccone, conviction for which he is detained.

As part of the investigation into embezzlement allegedly based on the falsification of travel expenses, Boudou and Guido Forcieri (his former chief of staff) and Cachi Romano (private secretary) "were from the administration of the sums allocated to expenses eventually. "And although the former vice broke off stating that" no minister is responsible for administrative tasks (…) he was the highest authority and was responsible for administering the allocated funds ".

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For justice, it has been corroborated that there were false documents at the time of submission of invoices related to travel expenses for more than 17 000 eurosand that this money "has been incorporated into the estate of the former public servant".

Four invoices were added to the Bel-Ami Hotel in Paris for 10,872, 8,034, 23,071 and 4,470 dollars; and an invoice in favor of another translator, identified as Eduardo Kahanne, for $ 3,818. All these figures "were not real," the sources said. The translator had only collected $ 2,194.

"Some invoices used by Forcieri and Boudou had the same numbering and different expenses.The invoices were scanned and falsified," says the file.