Criminal complaint against Macri for the sale of two thermoelectric power plants at ridiculous prices

The FPV-PJ deputies sentenced President Javier Iguacel and other energy officials for having sold two thermoelectric power plants at a derisory price to Macri's cousin.

November 27, 2018

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National MPs of the FPV-PJ Rodolfo Tailhade, Maria Emilia Soria, Fernanda Vallejos and Adrián Grana criminally denounced President Mauricio Macri, Secretary of Energy, Javier Iguacel, and other officials in the region for selling two thermoelectric plants allegedly at much lower prices than the defendants during their construction, complaint to the one who accepted The destape.

The government sold the thermoelectric power stations Brigadier López and Ensenada Barragán, in Santa Fe, at prices well below those requested for its construction, say the deputies. As the lawmakers have denounced, this He demanded an investment of one billion dollars but "his selling price was set at half this value", without coherently explaining the reasons for this ".

But the president has also been appointed again for the benefit of his cousin, Ángelo Calcaterra, with millions of dollars. Iecsa and Isolux were the companies in charge of the work of the thermoelectric power stations. The contract was canceled at the end of 2016 because businesses, who won the call for bids at the Kirchner, increased the amount of money budgeted exponentially (They asked civilian employees $ 8,900 million more than the $ 3,055 million budgeted). This fact paralyzed the work and Macrismo finalized the contract but, far from amending the contractors, he rewarded them.

Iecsa, that Calcaterra sold to him Marcelo Midlin, received $ 1,600 million in compensation. As revealed The destape in August, the government paid them $ 520 million in compensation and an additional $ 1,100 million in exchange for the equipment of the UTE. About 100 million US dollars from that date, as expressed by the deputies who denounced the behavior.

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But the rewards did not stop there. Alberto Brusco, senior executive of IECSA, is currently Undersecretary for Infrastructure of the Ministry of Energy. As revealed Ezequiel Orlando in The destapein a reorganization of the department at the beginning of the year, Juan José Aranguren transferred to Brusco the former ENARSA (now IEASA), the body that decided to compensate companies that had not completed the jobs for which they had been hired. In addition, it will now be the one that will privatize the factories.

Adolfo Marcelo Piccinini, also technical director of the factories during its construction, then worked for the IEASA after the termination of their contract. As the "agency responsible for carrying out the process of selling the plants, they were on both sides of the counter", as he may have known The Destape.

Therefore, in the complaint, the deputies requested that the possible commission of fraudulent administrative crimes to the detriment of the public administration committed in the form of fraudulent administration, Negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public functions, influence traffic active corruption, abuse of authority and breach of the duties of a public official.

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In addition, asked that the real value of the two plants be determined and an expert report on the terms and scope of the contractual termination agreed with the IECSA-ISOLUX consortium with respect to the construction work, as "there could be serious damage to the badets of the company. ;State".

Finally, to the list of irregularities was added that the new Secretary of Energy, Javier Iguacel, allowed providers to operators to be speculative investment funds, and not just with proven experience in the energy sector, such as LoneStar, PointState and TGLT – purchased by the construction company of Nicolás Caputo, brother of Macri's Soul – according to MPs.

The complaint was not only against Macri and Iguacel, but also against Aranguren, Alberto Brusco, Adolfo Piccinini, Hugo Balboa, former president of Enarsa, Mario Dell Aqua, owner of IEASA and Calcaterra, owner of IECSA.