Odebrecht: the government also appealed the lack of merit of the cousin of Macri for the contract for the burial of the train of Sarmiento – 26/04/2019

Perhaps because of the repercussion – or the literal interpretation – of Laura Alonso's statements two weeks ago, when she said in a journalistic interview that the Office of Anti-Corruption qu & # 39; She was not running a lawsuit involving members of the government. The official body has taken a decisive step in the opposite direction: like the first financial information unit of the complainant and Friday the prosecutor Franco Picardi, the other Attorney General appealed the lack of merit that Judge Martínez De Giorgi dictated to business partners of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in the work to bury the train trace Sarmiento. Among them is President Macri's first, Angelo Calcaterra.

As a complainant, the Anti-Corruption Bureau appealed the resolution in favor of Calcaterra, former head of the Iecsa- company, Jorge "Corcho" Rodríguez and former manager Nelson Lazarte.

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The agency asked Calcaterra and Rodríguez prosecuted for corruptionor else, because they feel that it is proven in the record that they participated in paying bribes for the badignment to the transitional union of 39 companies (UTE) of the new consortium of Sarmiento (NCS) of a railway burial.

After the contract was awarded, two addenda extended the working conditions and allowed the company to obtain a significant advance.

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"Throughout the treatment the various irregularities that surrounded the funeral burial are listed in detail and that they reflect the direction of the offer in favor of the winning UTE as well as the subsequent subscriptions of contractual addenda intended to maintain these derisory benefits in favor of the UTE, but as indicated, for the judge, the idea of ​​corruption only flew over the cause; when clearly the evidence gathered verifies this tense badumption", Says the letter of the OA.

The Bureau also requested that different members of the UTE be treated as necessary participants in negotiations incompatible with the exercise of a public office, as the maneuvers that benefited state trading enterprises "could be carried out because of companies that made up the UTE actions necessary so that the former leaders can act in the way interested by what they did ".

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In addition, the agency has requested that the treatment of incompatible negotiations be extended to Pbadive corruption for former transport secretaries Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi, Jaime's adviser and presumed leader, Manuel Vázquez, the former secretary of public works José López, former Minister of Planning Julio De Vido and the former undersecretary for coordination of this ministry Roberto Baratta. This qualification was also requested for Lazarte.

The OA recalled that the company Odebrecht (one of the consortium companies) had admitted the payment of bribes in Argentina and that through the Sabrimol Trading Company, from "Corcho" Rodríguez, circulated money from offshore accounts of Odebrecht.