Discover more than $ 41 million of entrepreneurs abroad

A group of businessmen who confessed to paying bribes to Kirchner to stay with public works contracts have accumulated more than $ 41 million in bank accounts abroad .

This number could even increase because it does not include dozens of accounts suspected of channeling illicit money, the balance of which is for the moment unknown, La Nación newspaper said.

The data, which are part of the file instructed by Judge Claudio Bonadio, include the badets of businessmen Carlos Wagner (Esuco), Juan Carlos de Goycoechea (Isolux), Jorge Neira (Electroengineering), Claudio Glazman (Latin American Society) Enrique Pescarmona (Impsa), Aldo Roggio (Roggio Hermanos) and Héctor Zabaleta (Techint).

The Financial Information Unit (FIU), which presented the data contained in the file known as kickbacks, says that businessmen were enriched by the overbilling of the bills. public procurement in collusion with former corrupt officials.

De Goycoechea, leader of the Spanish group Isolux, was the first entrepreneur to repent in his notebooks. He held bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein for US $ 14 million, according to judicial sources. This contractor and a family member appear as the holders of these accounts and are another figure on behalf of an offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands.

"My estate is of legal origin, related to more than 30 years of professional work and is fully declared before the AFIP (including accounts abroad), after paying all taxes" replied De Goycoechea before the consultation. for the aforementioned morning.

Wagner is another businessman with funds abroad, sued as one of the organizers of the illicit badociation led by Cristina Kirchner. The employer was responsible for digitizing public works among the companies closest to Kirchner.

The only funds related to the illegal activities of the bribebooks that had been detected so far were funds related to Daniel Muñoz, former private secretary of Kirchner. If, ultimately, we verify that businessmen end up with illicit money, the total amount of money recovered could exceed $ 100 million.

The Court has not yet determined whether these funds abroad from the businessmen had been laundered on the last capital statement or whether they had already been declared by the employers before l & # 39; AFIP.

Neira, director of Electroingeniería, one of the most favored companies in Kirchner, is another entrepreneur with badets abroad. They found accounts in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Panama (without detailing the balance), all in the name of a company related to his family, indicated judicial sources.

Among them are also Hector Zavaleta, former director of Techint, who confessed to making payments to officials Kirchner. The authorities recorded the financial activity of the executive power in Switzerland. Near him, they specified that his badets had been declared, as he explained to the justice of the peace.

Roggio, a transport contractor, was linked to Uruguayan companies, but gave no details on possible bank accounts. From the company, they replied: "The group [Roggio] He has done work in Uruguay. He is currently doing business with one of the companies ".

Lastly, the report concerns Glazman, a real estate businessman who has admitted to paying bribes to keep Crown land and which he says has never been given to him. They have detected badets worth $ 5.7 million in accounts in Switzerland, the United States and the Principality of Monaco, both on its behalf and in an offshore firm, judicial sources said.

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