How did the system of "canillita flights" work so that Kirchners receive newspapers

According to a cause parallel to the notebooks, approximately $ 30,000 was spent for each trip.

For former presidents

Nestor

and

Cristina Kirchner

they read comfortably and protected the "letters of mold", as President Cristina Kirchner so often called on newspaper covers, that Argentina spent several million pesos.

For years, the presidential plane flew back and forth between Buenos Aires Aeroparque and the airports of Rio Gallegos or El Calafate.

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, empty and with only a small load: a handful of newspapers to make reading in the south more comfortable.

The road was as follows: when the chiefs rested in their southern residences, a plane left Buenos Aires at 6:30 in the morning. I went with the newspapers and came back empty. He always carried newspapers and sometimes also furniture or various products, such as cables used in family hotels.

The cause of the canillitas planes is one of the detachments of the file of the

notebooks of bribes

. Among the testimonies gathered, several pilots, crew members or members of the House of the Army declared not only that they carried heavy and full bags to make the merchandise empty and light, but that they had also carried out travel to transport the daily press.

There have been several sayings of the aeronautics that have been separated and are already part of a new pursuit, by embezzlement, which reaches Cristina Kirchner and Oscar Parrilli, Secretary General of the Presidency, which formally depended the transfer of the leaders.

Expenditures for the personalized transfer of newspapers have been counted in thousands of dollars. According to the evidence gathered, according to Judge Claudio Bonadio, it was confirmed "that the aircraft badigned to the presidential air group (plates Tango 01, 02, 03 and from mid-2012, Tango 04) had was used for improper purposes as well as the plane Tango 10, which belongs to the Argentinian Air Force.

The flight of canillitas has involved millions of people. Argentina spent about $ 30,000 each time the Tango 01 moved and covered the Buenos Aires-Rio Gallegos-Buenos Aires route. That is, twenty of the newspapers involve a disbursement of about 1.2 million pesos, at the current values ​​of the US currency. For example, in 2013, the cost of this route was $ 31,392 ($ 1.38 million).

Bonadio said that he could not establish all daily flights, but he tried 19 trips, which, he writes, manages to configure the crime of misuse of state property.

The flights tested were carried out mainly on T-01 and T-02. Both had a similar operating cost: about $ 12,000 (520,000 pesos) to read the "molded letters".

The cause, in addition to the flight recordings requested from the General Secretariat of the Presidency, is based on a dozen testimonials received in the case of the notebooks and constituting a new file.

"We had a flight that the diariero had told us because we were flying on weekends – Saturdays, Sundays and holidays – and in general we were only moving newspapers, usually from the Aeroparque at 6 o'clock. The flights were only carried out when the presidential family in the south, it could be El Calafate or Río Gallegos, "said one of the witnesses, José Luis. Bustos, Tango 10 driver from December 2011 to December 2016, which included almost the entire second term of Cristina, when Néstor Il was already dead.

One of his colleagues, Claudio Trerotola, pilot of Tango 10, said he had flown this plane from the end of 2008 until his retirement at the end of 2011.

"On the flights we went to El Calafate, I never moved to Néstor Kirchner or to Cristina Fernández. The flights to El Calafate almost always left the Aéroparque on Saturday morning at 6:30 am, and they wore envelopes with documentation, daily newspaper packs, domestic staff and, on one occasion, a hairdresser who, from what I understand, were employees of Cristina Fernández, I also transferred to Río Gallegos the daughter of the presidential couple and friends, "he said.

José Luna, a 01 Tango mechanic who declared under oath, said that they did not only have newspapers: "I remember one flight in which we carry furniture, televisions and rolls of purple cables used for burial, the underground and various equipment, all this went to El Calafate and I think it was for the president's hotel. "

"They were still without pbadengers with only the crew and one of us to attend." We went, we left the newspapers and we went back to Buenos Aires, although I did it on those occasions, I know that there was a lot more for me I was not obliged to take the plane. It was Fokker F28 with a capacity of 18 and 36 pbadengers, depending on the configuration of each. We usually left on Saturday around 5.30 pm and arrived in about three hours, "said Carlos González, a member of the crew, of tango planes 01, 02, 03 and 04 on the trips he made between 2003 and 2010.

Sergio "Potro" Velásquez, a trusted driver of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, a native of Santa Cruz, was the key man of these flights. He was in charge of all the presidential logistics.

The commander himself said he met Néstor Kirchner in 2000, when he ran for the governorship of Santa Cruz and that Kirchner was governor. He became the only driver allowed to move him. Already president, the santacruceño did not allow another commander to take his place.

These diaries, as they said in the file, never managed to be greeted by the delegation.

"The government staff did not speak to us, when the vehicle arrived, all the crew had to be in the plane, no one could be on the platform, there was a hostile situation towards us, we did not understand the reason: at the booth to ask something from Velásquez, who introduced me and when I greeted him, he never answered me ", said the pilot Alfredo Amaral.

It is Velásquez who told how this road of several million newspapers and newspapers began: "During the first six months of the presidency of Néstor Kirchner, roughly, I understand that, when he was in the south of the country, the newspapers were sent by a commercial airline.There was a delay and they decided that such trips were made by the presidential fleet until the end of the presidency of Cristina Fernández , provided that one of them is in El Calafate or Rio Gallegos. "

It was an important logistic operation. All so that the presidents are informed.