Corruption notebooks: former lawyer of Daniel Muñoz's widow transferred to Comodoro Py

In the last hours, Miguel Ángel Plo and Federico Zupicich They were transferred to the federal courts of Comodoro Py. It is the former defender of Carolina Pochetti, widow of Daniel Muñoz, one of the former secretaries of Néstor Kirchnerand his son-in-law, who were arrested yesterday as part of the Corruption Notebooks case. They are not expected to declare themselves today and will be put at the disposal of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

An investigation is under way over the fate of more than 70 million dollars from the collection of notebooks and in the hands of the former secretary of Néstor Kirchner, deceased, and his widow. The file contains a series of trips that Plo and his family made to the United States, related to the dissolution and reconstitution of the badets that, in early 2016, had contracted the marriage of Muñoz and Pochetti in that country.

Judge Claudio Bonadio has already investigated Plo, his son-in-law and daughter. They badured that the trips were made for personal reasons. But the testimony of many of the repentant Muñoz-Pochetti chapter of the Cuadernos affair gives them a leading role in the organization investigated in Argentina and the United States for money laundering crime.

Until yesterday, Plo and his son-in-law were at liberty. But after the confessions of Pochetti and his cousin Carlos Gellert, both repentant, the judge ordered their arrest. Prosecutors Stornelli and Rívolo had requested the arrest last December 14.

Stornelli was already investigating Muñoz and his environment, first for his heritage, and then (when he stopped being a civil servant) in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal. The case was in the hands of Judge Luis Rodríguez. Last September, Stornelli launched a judicial investigation and arrest warrants against the widow of Muñoz and his men, precisely because they had found evidence of the death of Muñoz and his men. a network of companies bringing together the former presidential secretary and Mr Pochetti. The marriage, through prestanombres, bought 16 apartments in Miami and New York. Then it was found that they had sought to sell them quickly. Rodríguez rejected these requests for arrest.

The case began to be activated when the investigation of Muñoz's property was incorporated into the case of the notebooks, given the suspicions that the money that Kirchner's secretary had transferred was part of the illegal collection described by Centeno in his notes. Muñoz was the recipient of the bags collected by the former head of the Plan, Roberto Baratta, for whom Centeno worked until the day of his arrest on 31 July.

After the arrests of Pochetti and other accused persons in October, prosecutor Stornelli suspected that the role of the widow's lawyer at the time was more important than that of a mere defense. "The participation of Miguel Plo, María Jesús Plo and Federico Zupicich exceeded and overwhelmed any type of legal and technical badistance that it could have provided to Carolina Pochetti and Daniel Muñoz, in their capacity as lawyers, in his lifetime. ", he said in an opinion to which Infobae subscribed.