He is responsible for AFIP and has his money in tax havens

The Minister of Energy and Mines of the time, Juan José Aranguren, had then explained: "I still have my money in my pocket and, as we regain our confidence in it, we have the money. Argentina, we will refund it. "

Apparently for the holder of the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) Leandro Cuccioli, after more than three years of management of Mauricio Macri at the head of Casa Rosada, the conditions of trust have not yet appeared.

This is at least the result of his latest sworn affidavit, which shows that the person responsible for collecting taxes for, among other things, Argentine badets in the country maintains 90.51% of his wealth at the time of his death. foreign.

Cuccioli has declared badets and deposits for nearly 7 million pesos, of which more than 6.3 million remain outside the country.

In fact, the latest affidavit of Cuccioli provoked a little scandal at the end of last year, which went almost unnoticed in the middle of the short story that tries to account for the dissipation of inflation, its correlation with the loss of the power of poverty in Argentina.

The anti-corruption bureau detected a series of inconsistencies in Cuccioli's affidavit and warned that the AFIP holder had not provided data on the real estate lease, the shares abroad and the mutual funds that he owns.

And it was not for less. The mega-filtration of information from offshore companies based in tax havens, known as Paradise Papers, has shown that Cuccioli not only owned shares in two investment funds located in the Cayman Islands, but managed also a company registered in Bermuda, another tax haven.

According to the survey conducted in Argentina by La Nación and Perfil, at the time of filtration, most of its investments were in investment funds CIPEF V and CIPEF VI. Cuccioli had stated that these two funds were based in the United States, but the truth is that they were created in 2007 and 2011 to operate in emerging markets, are located in the Cayman Islands tax haven and are managed by The financial company The Capital Group of which Cuccioli was director until 2015.

As director of The Capital Group, Cuccioli has also joined the board of directors of El Tejar, an offshore company based in another tax haven, the Bermuda Islands, and head of one of the country's largest agricultural enterprises. Argentina.

According to research conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Cuccioli would be copied into 449 emails belonging to the El Tejar repertoire, one of the top ten integrated grain production companies and heavily capitalized by through companies located in tax havens.

As the Paradise Papers reveal, Cuccioli was part of this engineering, designed to evade the taxes payable and reduce the risk of possible lawsuits in the countries where it operates.

Thus, the owner of the AFIP, who declared a personal property of "only" 7 million pesos, is the equivalent of a brand new two-room apartment in Palermo – which, at a priori, would seem very little for any of his career and investments in offshore companies in tax havens – did not hesitate to ensure, at the end of last year, as part of the symposium IDEA in Mar del Plata, that it was "very profitable to escape to Argentina".