Cite 50 witnesses for alleged fake Cambiemos contributors

The Federal Judge


Sebastian Casanello
cited to testify as witnesses before 50 people who appear as contributors to Change's last election campaign as part of a case that investigates alleged false contributions.

The researchers' idea is to confirm if, as it appears in the documentation presented by Cambiemos, they donated money for the campaign of national legislators for the province of Buenos Aires. last year or if their names were used without them knowing it. They will also be asked if they are affiliated with a party (it is suspected that some might be fake Pro affiliates). "We call 50 witnesses," judicial sources told LA NACION.

In this case, the prosecutor


Carlos Stornelli
triggered the action last week. The central badumption is that there could have been a crime of "ideological falsification" of public documents, if fake contributors were included in the official income report of the campaign presented by the front to justice election, according to judicial sources. The origin of the case was a note from journalist Juan Ignacio Amorín at El Destape. He said that Cambiemos lists included hundreds of people who receive social plans (Ellas Hacen and Argentina Trabaja plans) or who are below the poverty line and seem to be funding the official campaign with donations for amounts between 300 and 1500 pesos. According to the complaint, these are people who did not contribute and who had no relation with Cambiemos.

The governor of Buenos Aires


Maria Eugenia Vidal
who was the reference of the list of candidates for the province, he referred to the case today. At a press conference in Villegas, he said he took two steps. "First, ask for an audit of this surrender within the electoral front itself, and secondly, to go to court."

Vidal said that it was "a denunciation of Kirchnerism" but that no matter where it came from, the decision was to present and accompany all the documents. He also said that the law on the financing of political parties "has shortcomings and shortcomings" and that it needs to be reformed. "We believe that the best thing is that there is a new law that provides for contributions to be banked, so there is no doubt who contributed or not," he said. he says

. a preliminary inquiry and requested reports from different agencies. Di Lello informed Casanello of all the documentation collected, including a report from the National Electoral Chamber, which confirmed that out of a sample of 100 cases of alleged false contributors, 99 are listed in the official documents as members of the Pro.

The case of Casanello and Stornelli was initiated by a complaint which, based on what was published by El Destape, was presented by Lucas Schaerer, of La Alameda Foundation (directed by Gustavo Vera)