Judge Canicoba performed more than 20 flights in friendly business jets

He traveled to spend the weekends in Uruguay; each trip costs about $ 15,000

While the judge

Rodolfo Canicoba Corral

and his wife bought a mansion in Vicente López, drove luxury cars and traveled six times a year abroad. The judge was taking private flights to spend the weekend at

Uruguay

in friendly business aircraft, he rebuilt LA NACION according to official documents.

Canicoba Corral, which has been investigated by the Judicial Council for its enrichment, has been raised more than 20 times to private planes from 2005 to today, according to official records of arrivals and departures from the country. in the last 15 years. this journal.

These were express trips to Uruguay for two or three days, or even, they were doing the same day. In many cases, the judge traveled with his wife and some of his children. Previously, most flights were made on Friday or Saturday from the San Fernando Airport and the return was usually held on Sunday, as shown on the official forms.

What was the final destination? The judge usually spends his holidays every summer in Punta del Este, in a house rented by his wife, as he himself claimed when he was placed under house arrest by trade unionist Omar Suárez in his absence.

"I invited him to my home in Punta del Este for a weekend getaway and I put my Kilo Tango plane at his disposal, he came back home several times. I have been his friend for 30 years, "said Pablo Elías, one of the businessmen who provided his plane to the judge, before consulting LA NACION.

Canicoba Corral, his wife and some of his children rode in February 2018 on the N529KT plane bound for Punta del Este, a ship that officially appears on behalf of Adams Aviation Services Inc. Trustee, a paper company from Delaware (United States). , but that the Argentinean businessman operates. The return took place two days later.

The administration of Daniel Scioli, in Buenos Aires, accuses Elias, friend and teammate, of receiving irregular contracts in the amount of $ 63 million. The businessman was also one of the partners of Gadega SA, a company that owns a department in Palermo Chico, whose shares were subsequently acquired by Viviana Tejada, wife of Canicoba Corral, as this newspaper revealed in May. .

In September 2008, Canicoba Corral embarked in the aircraft Dbadault Falcon20, a vessel on behalf of La Estrella Compañía de Seguros SA, a company related to the Werthein family. Years before, in 2005 and 2006, the magistrate had already ridden four times at Aerorutas Transportes Aéreos, another company related to this family.

From these companies, they badured that the aircraft (registration plates LV-BIY and LV-WOC) had been transferred to these companies for commercial exploitation and that, in any case, it could be done A contract. How much does a trip to Punta del Este cost? In the event that the judge paid for this service, the cheapest aircraft would cost more than $ 7,000, the sources said. In other words, the weekend round trip is $ 15,000.

This is not the first time that the surnames Canicoba Corral and Werthein are crossed in public records. Two years after the last trip entered in the official forms, the judge bought him in 2010 his mansion of Vicente López in La Caja de Ahorro y Seguros SA, another company of this family.

Friendly business men

The house, with a market value of more than a million dollars, was 80% owned by Tejada and the judge declared the remaining 20%. The couple paid for this property with a loan provided by the company that sold them. The Werthein company granted them a mortgage of 290,000 USD so that the couple could carry out the property operation.

THE NATION contacted Canicoba Corral, but the judge declined to comment.

On Friday, February 11, 2005, Canicoba Corral departed Aeroparque for Uruguay aboard a "special flight" – as per official documentation – aboard the Learjet 35 LV-ZSZ, a long-past aircraft. The entrepreneur from Kirchner, Lázaro Báez, bought it two years after this trip to a company related to the brothers Juliá, the same businessmen who were sentenced several years later for drug trafficking . The plane was piloted by Eduardo Juliá, reliable sources of the market.

The aircraft most used by Canicoba Corral and his wife was a small one: a Piper PA with the patent LV-MCT, which is registered with Extrema Patagonia SRL in the archives that this newspaper consulted. There were ten air sections (the last in 2015) aboard this propeller plane. The judge also climbed in 2009 on another similar plane, a Piper PA-31 with license plate LV-JLR.

There were weekends, but the fastest planes were also on these planes. On Sunday, December 16, 2007, the judge flew the same day in Uruguay aboard the patent Piper LV-MCT. The scene is repeated – still according to official data – on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (holiday in Argentina) with the same plane.

The only private flight from Canicoba Corral without a final destination in Uruguay took place in July 2015. The judge left the country aboard the Cessna 551 with the LV-WXD board bound for Chile for a two-day trip, again according to The registers. official

The plane was at that time in the name of Limavictor SA, a company related to businessmen Cristiano Ratazzi and bahien Gustavo Elías. In dialogue with the NATION, from the environment of entrepreneurs, they have ensured that the company engaged during these years to make trips by air taxi.

Canicoba Corral is one of the most austere judges of Comodoro Py. He said he has badets for $ 2.3 million, but his standard of living is much higher. The most expensive goods, such as houses and cars, appear in his wife's name.

He is also his wife who participates in the business ventures of his law firm located on Talcahuano Street, in Buenos Aires, as a company that operated the baggage business at airports.

The investigation into the enrichment of Canicoba Corral has stopped after the change of the Judicial Council. Councilor Juan Pablo More Velez has received the dossier in the last few weeks after the show and is currently studying new control measures to move the file forward, official sources said.