ARA San Juan: four officials are under contract | Chronic

The Federal Justice prosecuted four members of the Defense Ministry's Appraisal Commission for failing to fulfill its duties as a public official, when a Spanish company was first awarded the search for the sub-contractor. ARA San Juan sailor.

The federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgihe accused Héctor Horisberger, Marcelo Gustavo Dip, Rogelio Alfredo García Bastitta, members of the Navy and the Air Force, and Pablo Longh, for irregularities in the rental of Igeotest Geosciences and Explorations SL.

In addition, an embargo of one million pesos was imposed on the people involved.

According to the lawyer, "They did not apply the law", giving the mission to the company Marcelo Devicenzi, not in accordance with the requirements of the specifications.

"They were perfectly familiar with the regulations in force for hiring and despite all the obvious inconsistencies presented by the recommended bidder, they continued the process and did not reject the offer", the judge argued.

In the file, figure that "The company number of the Spanish company Igeotest Geosciences SL announced in advance did not correspond to the registration number" and that "the complainant found that the company number of the company was linked to the Spanish company CONTROL Y PROSPECCIONES SL, which would be bankrupt since 2017"

The case was initiated by the presentation of the lawyer Valeria Carrera, with the sponsorship of the study of Fernando Burlando, who denounced the members of the Ministry of Defense who are part of the procurement office of the "adulteration of a public instrument, ideological lie and breach of duty of a public official, fraud to the detriment of the public administration ".

The government finally awarded the call for bids to the company Ocean Infinity, which, one year after the vessel's last contact, detected it at 900 meters deep and about 500 kilometers from the shoreline Argentine.