Lázaro Báez more complicated: he was prosecuted for aggravated fraud and seized up to 45 million dollars – 04/10/2019

Economic Criminal Judge Javier López Biscayart treaty yesterday to Lázaro Báez, three of his children and directors of Austral for escaping taxes by falsifying statements, with trout bills and using non-existent tax credits between 2008 and 2014 and seized the owner of Austral Construcciones in the record figure of 2 billion pesos, about $ 45 million. He is already treated by way of money K, the address of Public Works, Hotesur and Los Sauces, among other causes. AFIP's tax claim for the all-years' breakout of Austral group companies would reach "more than 20 billion pesos," according to judicial sources.

The magistrate ordered the prosecution without pre-trial detention but Article 2 of the Criminal Tax Law 24769 which provides for a minimum sentence three years and six months in prison and up to nine years in prison. So, if he is convicted at an oral trial in this other case, he would add another sentence of actual compliance and a multi-million dollar fine. Last year, López Biscayart initiated a first legal action for aggravated fraud, but for years prior to 2008 and with an embargo of 250 million pesos. The case was opened in 2013 by a complaint of the deputy of Cambiemos, Elisa Carrió.

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In a resolution of more than 300 pages, the magistrate also continued Martín, Leandro and Luciana Báez as well as to the directors or accountants of their companies: Hugo Uribe, Julio Mendoza, Cesar Andrés, Claudio Bustos, Emilio Martín, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Tomás Garzón, Eduardo Larrea and Eduardo Arrejin. In addition, He summoned the lawyer Jorge Chueco to the investigation the same who had tried to escape Paraguay in 2016, had left an alleged suicide letter and is now being tried in the oral lawsuit by way of K money, and Gastón Lemoine, revealed to Clarin judicial sources. Báez's lawyers in this case were Franco Bindi and Elizabeth Gasaro.

The dissolution of the Bahía Blanca delegation by the former head of the AFIP Ricardo Echegaray in 2013, among other maneuvers, prevented Judge López Biscayart from investigating Báez at the time of a billing plant. trout had been discovered in this city. The AFIP under the control of Echegaray failed to provide this judge with reports containing the exact number of escapes. Recently, after the change of government and the contribution of the former AFIP Interior Director, Jaime Mecikovsky, the real determination of the tax debt could be made. In Bahía Blanca, a trout bill factory linked to starlette's ex-boyfriend Monica Farro, Juan Suris, was active.

In the detailed resolution of López Biscayart, irregular registration in the balance sheets or the issue of questionable checks is quoted by "Constructora Patagónica Argentina SA, Grupo Penta & Cia SA, Calvento SA, Terrafari SA, Valle Miter SA , Austral Agro SA, Conde Marketing SA, Víctor Mbadon Trasportes Cruz del Sur SRL, Jose Luis Espinosa, Vialtec SA, Consultq SRL, Dionicio Miranda Orosco, Héctor René Jesus Garro, Humberto Víctor Navarro, Strella Construcciones SA and AC SRL ".

The judge also made known through a fund-raising maneuver from a trust that was supposed to build a hotel located in the Cayo Chapel, opposite Belice, the same tax haven and tourist haven. Where the evictor Alberto Samid, Peronist entrepreneur. Austral argued that he had invested a hundred million dollars in this project.

As the hotel was not built, the payment of compensation by offshore companies for the hotel project resulted in "the recording of an extraordinary income that that would not correspond to a real indemnity – Adopted by the Grouped Transnational Investment Trust I 2009, resulting from an arbitral award – but referred to a new entry by which they were documented. fictitious transactions"During this maneuver, the Swiss financial company Helvetic Service Group bought SGI" La Rosadita "in 2011 and its director, Argentine Néstor Ramos, a fugitive, intervened.

In the evasion maneuvers, the judge stated that "the true nature of the link has been maliciously concealed between Austral Construcciones SA and Valle Miter SRL – then Valle Miter SA -, with the aim of promoting the escape of a substantial fraction of the corresponding taxes of Austral Construcciones SA and to seek the impunity of those responsible. "Valle Miter managed Hotesur and paid rent to Kirchner until 2013, when Báez was also one of the state's great entrepreneurs.

Regarding the role of Báez, the judge found that:

– It's him who finally approved purchase orders to suppliers: It was he who could approve or reject them and give new directions.

– No funds left the company without the authorization of Lázaro Báez or Martín Báez.

– From 2012, he made personal, economic and financial decisions as well as everything he did in the framework of the order of commercial decisions, to which his participation in the escapes attributed to Austral Construcciones SA for the year 2013 has been imputed.

– The engineers from Pistán and Uribe have asked Lázaro Báez to use suppliers, including Grupo Penta SA and Constructora Patagónica SA.

– It is Lázaro Báez who directly ordered Claudio Fernando Bustos in December 2013 to do so, together with Dr. Jorge Chueco, – and as part of a transaction to issue preferred shares – presents D & B Bank Helvetic Service Group SA issues country checks "as it was an operation that was to reduce the discovery of current accounts".

– The accounting and administration sector of the company reported directly to Lázaro Antonio Báez, who was also responsible for the financial management of the company.

– Lázaro Antonio Báez made the decision (especially a statement of investigation of Martín Antonio Báez).