Austral Construcciones, the flagship company of corruption K, is in ruins

Desolation and abandonment. These are two of the sensations that prevail in the field of Austral Construcciones, whose the splendor seemed endless at a time when Lázaro Báez was considered "the businessman of the moment" in Rio Gallegos, as he recalled Leandro Báez in the Federal Court of Justice No. 4 (TOF 4) during his testimony in the money laundering lawsuit against him.

The man-made construction company designated as figurehead of the K, has benefited from the concession of 52 contracts of the State National for the execution of road works, for which received 46 billion pesos. This happened during the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kichner. At the present time, an administrator is in charge of guarding the gendarmerie. They have only personal access from the armed forces, the national road and the municipality. The abandonment is such that a punctured pipe would have caused the roof of one of the offices to fall.

For a long time"Los Báez" was one of Santa Cruz's most beloved families: their business activities gave work to many people. Everything changed when the case, in the hands of Federal Judge Sebastian Casanello, began to move forward. Unemployment and debt drove former employees to "blame" their share with vehicles and machines – unloaded – from Austral Construcciones. Some of them even threaten the family group that still lives in the southern city. Several products, spare parts, tools and other items such as paint, bricks, sanitary sets and bags of cement, owned by Austral Construcciones are sold on the Internet, denounced the family to which it belongs. Everything is part of the embargo imposed by the magistrate.

The fall of the grace of Lázaro Báez's family three years after his arrest

Corralone incomes also include trips to steal auto parts and tools. It can be seen as expensive road vehicles without use and rusted by lack of maintenance, looted hangars, trucks without bridges, burning vehicles, cement blocks, pipes and irons on the ground, unprotected . unusable

The sound of the wind is the only thing heard on the property, giving a ghostly touch to its agonizing existence. The same thing happens in the quarry that the company used to get concrete.

Today & # 39; hui, Lazaro occupies a cell of the prison of Ezeiza with his son Martín, accused of having laundered $ 60 million; while the rest of their offspring try to detach themselves from the maneuvers of the caudillo. Leandro, before the court that tried them for money laundering, said his father was the only one responsible for Comodoro Py.

Video: the vehicles attached to Lázaro Báez are in private hands

In June 2018, commercial judge María José Gigy Trayno decreed the bankruptcy of Austral Construcciones S.A., created in May 2013, a few days before the takeover of Néstor Kirchner. TOF 4 is now responsible for the movements of the company, whose property, located near the airport, was valued at 151 million pesos. It includes a dining room used by employees, warehouses, light and heavy flora workshops, two laundries for machinery and trucks and petrol and diesel pumps whose condition is uncertain.