Cause of notebooks: the Federal Chamber has overturned the prosecution of Paolo Rocca

The Room I of the Federal Penal and Corrections Chamber decided to revoke the treatment of Paolo Rocca, CEO of Techint, in the case that investigates the alleged payment of bribes in the well-known cause of laptops.

According to the judges, there is no element to maintain suspicion about the executive, considering Rocca's argument as credible He badured that as chairman of the company, he may not have been aware of the transactions that Judge Claudio Bonadio had investigated.

Given the number of companies making up the Techint Group, Magistrates Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi They explained that this does not imply that all the acts of the companies were decided by Rocca, CEO of the holding company. "Rocca's responsibility, based primarily on his hierarchical position, lacks the necessary and sufficient support to link it to this process," they said.

IN ADDITION:

Books of the bribes written by Oscar Centeno, representative of Roberto Baratta, Techint was one of the companies involved in the cause. At the beginning of the investigation, the same institutional director of the group, Luiz Betnaza acknowledged that he had ordered Héctor Zabaleta to pay a contribution of one million dollars to Baratta.

According to investigations, the bribes sent to Kirchner officials were aimed at request their intermediation so that Venezuela can unblock the expropriation of the company Sidor.

The judges concluded that further tests would be necessary to establish a link between Techint's CEO and bribery, and stated that "it is not possible to standardize "the treatment of the executive and that it will be necessary" to deepen "the investigation" to determine whether Rocca was indeed related to deliveries coins registered by Centeno. "