Money Route K: They ask for the arrest of Martín Báez for mobilizing $ 5 million

February 6, 2019

Prosecutor Abel Córdoba sent the request to the judge. Federal Court 4 asked Lázaro Báez's eldest son to appear in the next few hours.

The prosecutor in the court that runs the lawsuit for Money Route K, Abel Córdoba, asked for the arrest of Martín Báez, the eldest son of Lázaro Báez, after detecting cash movements for $ 5 million.

On request, the Federal Oral Court 4 (TOF 4) he urged Martín Báez to appear at the trial, but will order his immediate arrest.

Charged with money laundering for $ 60 million, along with his three brothers and his father, Martin Báez was absent during the first hearing of 2019 the trial that began last October for the so-called case "the way of money K ".

Before his absence without justification, the TOF 4 chaired by Néstor Costabel, Maria Gabriela López Íñiguez and Adriana Pallioti, asked that he come under the risk of being arrested.

At the same time, the prosecutor of the Court, Abel Córdoba, has detected $ 5 million in funds for the interim measures imposed on Martín Báez and has therefore requested his detention.

Lázaro Báez refused to testify in the Money Route K case

It should be remembered that the "K money route" was related to the cause of the State scams for irregular procurement of public works in Lázaro Báez during the Kirchner government.

In addition, the "hoarding of funds in Switzerland" has been taken into account. Until the moment, Lázaro Báez had been sued for the expatriation of the money and its reintroduction in the country. To this, it should be added that the capital of Báez increased considerably between 2010 and 2013: it now has more than 420 properties for 2.547 million pesos.

The first expatriation maneuver corresponds to the images of SGI's finances where you can see Martín Báez and other people around businessman K for $ 5.1 million.

Then, between December 2012 and April 2013, $ 33 million of capital raised by Austral Construcciones was reintroduced into the country through a series of transactions with public debt securities.