How did the government's lawsuit against Fabian de Souza and Cristóbal López unfold?

Prosecutions against López and De Souza were initiated by Julián Ercolini, president of the city's Criminal and Correctional Court No. 10, after having opened an investigation for the publication of a newspaper article that told entrepreneurs that they owed 8,000 million pesos of taxes.

In March 2018, two of the three judges of the Federal Appeals Chamber of the city released the businessmen after refusing Ercolini's arguments, without however suffering the consequences: Jorge Luis Ballestero had to resign threatened with a political trial and Eduardo Farah transferred him. to the fiscal criminal jurisdiction.

Only cameraman Leopoldo Bruglia, who voted in favor of Ercolini's decision, remained in place.

During, between the judicial whereabouts López and De Souza returned to prison, even if the alleged tax evasion has never been tested.

"This has already been clarified by the Court: there were 8,000 million, there were projects of the AFIP legally because they have a lot of companies. The problem was the persecution of these two men for having media, "said journalist Darío Villaruel on C5N's screen.

"It was not for other companies, it was for having means of communication unrelated to the requirements that the Macri government wanted for its government."they had an independent media that was going to tell what was going on and not as another way to hide it"he said.

For his part, the journalist Pablo Duggan acknowledged that "there has never been an escape, because for that you must not pay tax and engage in a ploy not to pay", In this case, all debts have been framed in an AFIP payment plan".

During the investigation of the fraud case, the former administrator of AFIP, Ricardo Etchegaray, explained that businesses and individuals had the opportunity to pay their taxes to avoid bankruptcies.

In this sense, De Souza revealed in the context of the case that he had just been quoted before the 2015 general election to tell him what he should doand that in refusing, they promised retaliation.

The first step was the publication of debt data for Indalo Group companies, including Banco Finansur or Oil Fuels.