reveal that Kirchner’s former secretary Daniel Muñoz had another offshore company

The Pandora Papers, the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on tax havens, revealed new offshore companies and money laundering movements by Daniel Muñoz, the Kirchner’s former secretary.

Five years ago, the Panama Papers uncovered the records of Gold Black Limited, the British Virgin Islands-based company of which the late secretary of Nestor Kirchner had appeared as a shareholder.

But now Pandora Papers released documents and details about another offshore company involving Muñoz: Old Wolf Limited.

As published The nation, who participated in the survey, January 12, 2015 Muñoz acquired 50% of the company’s shares and his wife, Carolina Pochetti, the remaining 50%. Previously, a file mentioned that the director of the company was the figurehead of Mar del Plata Sergio Todisco, alongside the Mexican Perla Aydee Puente Rezendez, partner of a cousin of Pochetti, between November 2012 and February 2015.

The firm was registered by the law firm Trident Trust, whose funds were reported as of “Purchase and sale of real estate”.

Muñoz and Pochetti had the help of Todisco and Elizabeth Ortiz Municoy, a married couple from Mar del Plata, as the front men.

In the case of the corruption diary, Ortiz Municoy declared herself repentant and said that her husband visited Muñoz every week at two houses in the city of Buenos Aires.

“Muñoz put the money in backpacks or bags and gave it to my ex-husband, who attended once a week since 2010. He would withdraw between 500,000 and 1,000,000 euros or dollars and send that money abroad through exchange houses, ”said the woman, as published by the aforementioned journal.

According to a 2019 trial of the late judge Claudio Bonadio, there were at least seven financiers who provided services to former secretary Kirchner (who died in 2016) for money laundering operations.

Since 2010, Muñoz’s money – indicated in the Corruption Notebooks case as the main recipient of the bags of money – has been transferred to various accounts in the United States and from there to the hands of real estate agents who bought 16 properties for more than 70 million US dollars.

According to Justice, this whole framework was used to launder illicit money and dissociate these funds from their real holder.

AFG