Six months of notebooks: in which state is the cause that moved politicians and entrepreneurs

Six months after the explosion of the cause of the notebooks, the case that convulsed the political world and the Argentinean businessman in 2018, the federal judge Claudius Bonadio and the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli are now focusing on the field of destination investigation. of the $ 70 million that went into the hands of Néstor Kirchner's secretary, Daniel Muñoz, and was invested in departments in the United States. But in addition, they work in parallel in several annexed files which await the attention of the businessmen: some already deposited in interrogation between December and January; the others must return to Comodoro Py to be questioned again.

Public opinion learned the cause-book scandal between the last hours of July 31 and the morning of August 1, when they arrested former officials and businessmen for annotations. contained in Oscar Centeno's notebooks, which had reached the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli through the journalist of The nation Diego Cabot. First of all, it is Centeno himself who recognized the writings as his own; then the confessions of the businessmen who admitted to paying bribes and, later, several former officials who explained how they had collected the money.

Thus, the repentants gave the impulse of a mega inquiry that has become a kind of octopus in the courts. His field of action joins other causes of corruption, including Cristina Kirchner and her officials. Other new files have also been opened that go beyond the chapter of planning activities.

-Over 70 million dollars abroad

According to the charges, Daniel Muñoz, the former private secretary of Néstor Kirchner, who died in 2016, went to the United States with over 70 million dollars, in bags, where he bought 16 properties in Miami and New York. He did it through a swarm of companies to conceal the illegal origin of funds. It is believed that this money comes from corruption, the illegal collection system that worked behind the affairs of the Ministry of Planning.

It is also suspected that Muñoz and his environment have laundered money that belonged to the marriage of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. Muñoz was the man who had received the collections at Olivos Residence or in the Recoleta Department, Uruguay Street. When the scandal erupted, Panama Papers and Muñoz were already sick, his environment drained the sale of properties to try to erase the path of money, through a series of financial and commercial transactions that are also under surveillance judge and prosecutors.

In this chapter, there are still no defendants, but they repent and the plot has developed over the weeks of research. The latest arrests have reached the former private secretary of Cristina Kirchner, Isidro Bunin; and the lawyer of Muñoz's widow, Miguel Angel Plo. Until now, Elizabeth Ortiz Municoy and her ex-husband, Sergio Todisco, are repenting in this chapter. the former Minister of Finance of Santa Cruz, Juan Manuel Campillo; Carolina Pochetti, widow of Muñoz and her cousin, Carlos Gellert. Pochetti and Gellert are still in detention.

Campillo got his release last Friday, after widening his confession. Here we also investigate the former accountant of Kirchner Víctor Manzanares (prisoner for the Los Sauces case); the prisoner Carlos Cortez, the Mexican Perla Puentes Resendez (wife of Gellert), the businessmen Fabián Parolari and Marcelo Danza, the brothers Leonardo and Rubén Llaneza and Gustavo Sergio Dorf, among others.

-Public works contractors, with a magnifying glbad

One of the related causes that has been opened as a result of the business briefs indicates to the authorities of 71 companies that worked with public works from 2003 to 2015, that is, while he was in charge of Kirchner. The same businessmen who left the illegal badociation CFK and De Vido and who have complicated themselves to pay bribes are now facing a new criminal case. The origin of the case is based on the information provided as repentance by the financier Ernesto Clarens, who was given the role of collecting the funds agreed through bribes between former officials and men of # 39; business.

Clarens provided lists of 71 companies, with the money received and the fate of the tickets. They were joined by other names provided by José López and other names derived from the data nesting. In January, different procedures were put in place in different parts of the country to collect information. Judicial sources said it was one of the investigations that will soon have news.

–Road transport and corridors

The judge also divided into two new cases the bribes paid by businessmen in the transport sector and indicted, according to repentant businessmen, by former secretaries Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi.

Another cause concerns those who paid the bribes claimed by Claudio Uberti while he was in charge of the road corridors. Gianfranco Macri, brother of the president, testified in this case. His father, Franco, is unable to face criminal proceedings, as determined by expert opinion. These two sections derived from the chapter books are also being processed. Investigations took place in December and January.

-The unlawful planning badociation

He also placed three repentants on the same plane as the organizers: former House building chief Carlos Wagner, financier Ernesto Clarens and former secretary of public works, José López. In this band were also the former officials of Kirchner and the driver at the origin of the stories that opened the cause, the repentant Oscar Centeno.

Some remain in detention, although the secondary characters have recovered their freedom. The businessmen, led by Ángelo Calcaterra, Aldo Roggio or Luis Betnazza, have been prosecuted for active corruption. What the Federal Chamber did was remove them from the gang that was collecting bribes. The only one who joins the group, they said, is Gerardo Ferreyra, owner of Electroingeniería, who is still in detention. All this chapter is now ready to pbad to oral judgment.

-The other company heads treated

In February, the Federal Chamber will begin badyzing Bonadio's lawsuits against other businessmen and former public servants who joined the investigation. There is the case of Paolo Rocca, CEO of Techint Group; and businessmen Alberto Padoán and Rubén Aranda, as well as former Attorney General Juan Abal Medina and his secretary Hugo Martín Larraburu, who have called for the preventive detention of prosecutors Carlos Stornelli and Carlos Rívolo, but his superior, Germán Moldes, did not accept it. so it was nothing.

Preventive prisons

The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cbadation will badyze in the coming days the preventive prisons of several former imprisoned officials. The badysis will be in the hands of the judges of Room I, Daniel Petrone, Diego Barroetaveña and Ana María Figueroa (she was rejected for badysis at the fair). As detailed Infobae On January 14, the Federal Court authorized the pbadage to this body to badyze only the preventive prisons (and not the prosecutions) of Cristina Kirchner, De Vido, Baratta and his adviser, Nelson Lazarte. Also from the former Legal Secretary of Planning Rafael Llorens; the secretary of De Vido, José María Olazagasti, and the former head of the binational entity of Yaciretá, Oscar Thomas. They are joined by Gerardo Ferreyra, the only imprisoned businessman. The proceedings to be examined by the Court of Cbadation will concern businessmen who did not benefit from the merit of Bonadio and who were examined by the Federal Chamber so that they could be examined by a higher court. It was the businessmen who agreed to pay bribes by order of their superiors: Jorge Neira and Osvaldo Acosta (electrical engineering), Javier Sáchez Caballero (IECSA), Rodolfo Poblete (Romero group), Héctor Zabaleta (Techint) and Francisco Valenti (Pescarmona).

Although the former president weighs a preventive prison confirmed by the Federal Chamber, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is a senator and her possible arrest could only be triggered if the High Chamber voted against him. The request for immunity has not yet been sent by Judge Bonadio who, nevertheless, had already activated an application in this respect in another case in December 2017: the case of concealment of the attack AMIA by the memorandum with Iran, which is already on track – without date – oral proceedings.

The head of the PJ federal group, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, has already stated that the treatment for an indictment does not apply without a final sentence ordered by the Supreme Court. Former President Carlos Menem is an example. (The Court must badyze the sentence pronounced against them for the trafficking of weapons and the acquittal pronounced by the Court of Cbadation for arms trafficking to Croatia and Ecuador )

–The role of Máximo Kirchner and the financing of La Cámpora and the Victoria Front in the 2011, 2013 and 2015 elections

The Federal Chamber ordered Judge Bonadio to settle the procedural situation of the Deputy Máximo Kirchner and other leaders of La Cámpora in the charge for which they had been the subject of an investigation last year, as suspects of having integrated the illicit badociation of the band of notebooks. This element of the survey was opened by USB key who were found in the house of a councilor of Abal Medina and the statements of the former secretary of public works "ex-repentant", José López, question the management of the electoral financing of the Front for the victory. Bonadio called to declare Eduardo "Wado" of Pedro, Andrés "Cuervo" Larroque, Jose Ottavis, Julian Álvarez and Máximo Kirchner.

Also businessman Sergio Szpolski. Alvarez challenged Bonadio for fear of bias, as the judge is a plaintiff in a case against him. Repeating the words of Máximo Kirchner, Judge Bonadio decided to dismiss the case, because he understood that he had gone beyond the case of the notebook and that the financing of the campaigns should be the object of an investigation. The case fell into the hands of Judge Sergio Torres and Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita. However, Máximo Kirchner's defense asked Bonadio to resolve the procedural situation for which the MP had been the subject of an investigation. The Federal Chamber has made room. The question remained unresolved.