He led a mafia that took Argentinian money

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich yesterday underlined "the decision of President Mauricio Macri to fight against the mafia", following the arrest of the port unionist Herme Juárez, which is the subject of An investigation for illegal badociation and money laundering. "He led a mafia that took money from all the Argentineans they produce," he said.

"The detention is linked to a political decision of our president to oppose these gangs.It is the first thing he told us when setting up the administration. , it's the general framework, "explained the manager.

At a press conference he gave Rosario, he also said: "Today, a man who dominates the waterway for 50 years has stopped and eliminated the possibility that we have a fleet like the one we had, because today all this fleet is in Paraguay, for these gentlemen owners of a sector ".

Bullrich said that there were "cost overruns and terrible extortion, which led several months ago to open an investigation into money laundering, badets and property, which resulted in this operation with Juarez as the main detainee ".

Juarez, secretary general of the United Ports Argentina Union (Supa), was arrested Thursday in his luxury residence in San Lorenzo, accused of illicit badociation, scams, fraud and embezzlement of public funds and private.

After the operation, a call was made for the badets that the Juarez-owned cooperative would own in Uruguay to be provided for preventive purposes and, in addition, the existing bank accounts in Argentina were blocked, the amount of which would exceed $ 100 million. of dollars. .

The minister explained that, in the context of the file that had been opened, "a lot of information was coming in; We have the Safe Harvest program, where we work to prevent crop theft, and with the information from the AFI (Federal Intelligence Agency) and the port sector, we could determine that there was an established mafia preventing any kind of operation and the prices they wanted and dear, and everything was stolen. "

"A very thorough investigation was conducted with the Argentinian Federal Police and the Special Money Laundering Department, and the way to money has begun to be followed," he said.

Bullrich added that "the money from the cooperative was diverted to the benefit of trade unionists. Accounts for $ 60 million were found and money stuck in Uruguay. There are accounts in Argentina, millions of dollars, there is talk of a diversion of 3,000 million pesos, it was a mafia made and right, a mafia with everything, "he said. .

The official also said that "other governments have negotiated; in 2010, they had a strike and ended up negotiating with (Hugo) Moyano asking them to lift it. "

And he added that when "Omar" "El Caballo" Suarez (the former president of the Union of United Navy Workers, arrested today) fell, this type of behavior and attitude these gentlemen started to be much more open. "