Pablo Escobar's partner in narco cleared $ 135 million through Banco Nacion

One of the directors of the companies Pilar Bicentenario and Insula Urbana, accused of having laundered money from drug trafficking, specifically the cartel of Medellin and Sinaloa, participated in the money laundering. money promoted by President Mauricio Macri, for an amount of about 135 million pesos. and in the months leading up to the arrest of the clan members.

According to official documents, he agreed to The destape, on 12/22/2016 Marcelo Gustavo Pera, appointed by the government as one of the intriguers of the narco clan who "washes money to the heir of Pablo Escobar in Argentina", has entered the country at least $ 135,668,810, under the voluntary system of declaration of badets in the country and abroad, generally called money laundering.

Pera shared the repertoire of companies Insula Urubana and Pílar Bicentenario with José Piedrahita Ceballos, one of the 15 most wanted drug traffickers in the world, who was finally arrested in Colombia and deported to the United States, accused of 39 have laundered the money from drugs in different countries. What is Argentina?

According to justice, the bond of Ceballos in the country was Mateo Corvo Dolcet, concuñado of Pera, who would have found documents confirming even the participation of the widow and the son of the Colombian narco capo Pablo Escobar Gaviria, who would have introduced them to make business.

In October 2017, Pera and the company's partners were arrested and the case gained tremendous media notoriety. All were tried with preventive detention, although Pera later obtained the lack of merit since the prosecutor could not prove with the necessary degree of certainty that he really knew who was Piedrahita Ceballos.

However, the peculiarity has nothing to do with lax money-laundering and lack of state control, which has allowed one of the world's largest narco organizations to introduce hundreds of millions of pesos in the country, even though they were at the time. has already been the subject of an investigation by the Argentine and North American courts, but also by the constant relationship that the companies maintained with Cambiemos: the bank chosen to pay the money in the country was the official bank; to say the Nation.

As you could confirm The destapeAs the entity did not send any alerts about the operation, the Financial Information Unit (FIU) had no intervention either.

But the relationship between these companies, who have investigated money laundering for Colombian drugs in Argentina via real estate projects, and Cambiemos does not start there.

Before the investment of 400 million dollars of questionable origin, the Municipality of Pilar began to make arrangements within the deliberative council to approve the project, which had the approval of the suspect by Pilar's secretary of public works, Guillermo Iglesias, husband of the national deputy of the civic coalition Marcela Campagnoli.

The project seemed to have been paralyzed after Mbadismo had rejected the changes requested by Corvo Dolcet. However, the company continued to announce its ambitious plan through publications in leading newspapers and construction magazines.

This was not the only ambition that the company had "narco" in Pilar: another project that did not prosper is that of Pilar Parking, which consisted of building about 900 garages near the new station "Panamericana". , which would be connected with a Pilar-Retiro differential service. In this way, residents of Pilar's private neighborhoods could reach the center with Wi-Fi, luxury seating, air conditioning and heating, without incurring the costs and delays caused by the car.

According to those involved in the Court, Pilar Bicentenario SA, in charge of the project, had as its own shareholder Jose Bayron Piedrahita Ceballos, a prominent Colombian businessman who became one of the 15 most wanted drug traffickers in the States. In Colombia, and Marcelo Gustavo Pera himself.

This is another striking political link of the "narco" company: according to the private documents of the company to which El Destape had access, in order to obtain the initial investment of Pilar Parking, they decided to ask a quote to the banks Santander Río and Ciudad. respectively.

Finally, they decided to turn to the City Bank, under the direction of PRO. The loan was for productive purposes for the shocking sum of $ 60,000,000, a hard figure to get in the financial market for a company with no apparent ties to the bank in question.

In the report "Estado de situación" of Pilar Parking, presented to the project partners, it was explained that the reason for the loan was simply political: "We managed and obtained a productive loan from the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires. that we have reached the same opportunity to grant with Santander Río and with HSBC, we chose, last June, to do it with Banco Ciudad before the PRO can get a good election result, "he badured. who had exclusive access to this medium.

The loan for "productive investment" has been completed and to date, the company is being impounded and owes about 71,738,000 USD to the City Bank, as evidenced by the Central Bank's register. For this reason, he finds himself in situation 3: that is, as a dangerous debtor.