Copies notebooks: revoked the treatment of Paolo Rocca

The federal chamber revoked the treatment that Judge Claudio Bonadio had ruled against Techint CEO Paolo Rocca, in the cause of the notebooks of bribes. The judges considered that there are no elements to maintain suspicion about the alleged bribe to officials of Kirchner.

Chamber I of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Chamber decided to annul the action taken by the magistrate. They reasonably argued Rocca 's argument that, as a Techint boss, he may not have been aware of activities such as the one Bonadio investigated.

Judges Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi explained that the fact that Techint is composed of many companies implies that all the acts of each integration company were not decided by the management of the holding company, in that it was 39, occurrence, Rocca. "The responsibility of Rocca, based primarily on his hierarchical position, lack of support and enough to connect it to this process, "said the Federal Chamber.

Techint was one of the companies cited directly in the pages of the notebooks bribes written by Oscar Centeno, ex-driver Roberto Baratta. Shortly after the start of the investigation, Luis Betnaza, director of the establishment, admitted in court that he had ordered the former Techint director, Héctor Zabaleta, to pay a "contribution" of $ 1 million to Baratta to unlock the expropriation of Sidor in Venezuela.

The bribes, according to what the judge investigated, had been directed to Kirchner's officials so that to intercede before the government of Hugo Chávez and that they hastened to nationalize this company, which was part of Techint.

"It should be noted that neither the Venezuelan-based company nor those established in Venezuela are mere branches of the same company, but rather large companies with their own managers and companies, as was pointed out by highlighting. the responsibility of Zabaleta, the candidate and his superior, Betnaza, they were not mere dependents this limited their actions to the blind realization of an order, "determined the House.

The judges concluded that further testing would be required to involve the Techint CEO in paying bribes. They claimed that "it is not possible to standardize" the treatment of the executive and that it will be necessary "deepen" the investigation "to determine whether Rocca was indeed related to the cash deliveries recorded by Centeno."