The companies of Daniel Muñoz and Carolina Pochetti in the region

The court was just beginning. Daniel Muñoz was the shadow of Néstor Kirchner. Carolina Pochetti, born in Neuquén, lived for years in Santa Cruz and recently received a modest salary, according to the protocol of the government.

In 2008, Muñoz and Pochetti began the transfer of millionaire funds of dubious origin. It was a year after Muñoz himself appeared before Miriam Quiroga, Néstor's secretary, with a bulky bag in a Bolívar 50 office: "Look how much it weighs … they are green".

The man (now deceased) needed to make the fortune harvested in profitable business. How could he have done it if he was only a third year auxiliary to the Santa Cruz government? Of course, his "luck" had a radical change when Kirchner chose him as private secretary and personal advisor.

In 2008, Lilita Carrió's guests took the leap in noting that, having neither real estate nor savings and only their salary and a Volkswagen Gol '99, Muñoz spent a few years in show a plot of 675 m2 in Mar de las Pampa, another 1,285 in El Calafate, a Ford Focus and $ 430,000 in cash. This was only the embryo of kneaded wealth.

Pochetti, who lived in a 50 m2 Fonavi plan house, moved to a private mansion in Villa Urquiza from Muñoz.

It was precisely at this time that the Muñoz-Pochetti couple insisted on looking for great business opportunities. And the partners ready for it.

Today, with the notebooks of Centeno and the statements of the protagonists repentant prisoners, we know that the circuit of huge flows came from bribes that former officials charged to underwriters. -treators of the state. A probable volume of $ 200 million (according to the confessions of these hours) is attributed to the "investments" of Muñoz, his relatives and leaders in Patagonia, Buenos Aires, the United States and the Caribbean.

The first two and only companies registered by Daniel Muñoz were created in our region of North Patagonia with a young man from the famous Cipolletti family: Gregorio Ludman. This is confirmed in the official archives and this has been confirmed by the former repentant accountant of the now imprisoned Kirchner, Claudio "Polo" Manzanares.

Everything indicates that the objective of these first companies was nothing other than to mount the oil boom of Vaca Muerta, which was to be seen in the future. You had to find partners with clear experience in the field.

Muñoz joined Ludman in 2008, a year before being accused of enrichment by Judge Claudio Bonadio. The duo created two companies with a few days difference:

• DS Mayer SA, conceived January 18, 2008. It settled in Laprida 1635, second floor A of Buenos Aires, but its operations center was located on Highway 151, between Cipolletti and Cinco Saltos. The initial purpose of the company was transportation in all its forms – including lubricants – and real estate.

• Proxi SRL, registered about 15 days later, with address to Cipolletti. It has proposed the operation, management and advisory of gas pipelines and deposits, environmental remediation, the transportation of hazardous loads, exploitation, hydrocarbon extraction and financial services. Nothing less.

The latter company did not provide services or declared outlets, said Ludman. As for DS Mayer, he claimed – and shown with papers in front of this newspaper – that it was working until 2012 and that his last years had recorded a loss of 283,000 pesos and a net worth of 739 pesos . The company had six trucks and a contract with YPF to distribute fuel from the Huincul refinery to the regional vending machines. But a previous company was more successful.

L & # 39; s Friend "

How was Muñoz contacted with Valletano's partner? According to the reconstruction of "Río Negro" sources close to the protagonists, the story goes back to 2005, when the owner of a large transport company in the oil region told Ludman, its general manager: "There is a friend who wants to work with us; attend. "This" friend "was Daniel Blanco, brother of the former wife of the governor of Santa Cruz, Daniel Peralta and uncle of Carolina Pochetti. He had some years of experience in the oil industry.

Blanco created for this purpose a company called Patagon Adventure SRL with his sister Stella Maris and his niece Carolina, domiciled in the luxury housing of Daniel Muñoz in Villa Urquiza and alternative residences in Neuquén and Barrio Uno in Plaza Huincul. Its main social purpose was the tourist operator, but was also registered as a forestry operator, real estate advisor and oil services. For this last function, it was agreed that Ludman would be the administrator. Apparently, the company was working on wheels.

So, three years later, Muñoz appears as a direct investor. He was introduced by Carolina and his uncle. They sat down with Ludman and wrote Proxi and DS Mayer. The Cipoleño swears that he did not know the history and judicial investigations on the heritage of Muñoz, who again became a key official as adviser to Cristina Fernández with a secretary hierarchy of the same. State. However, as has been said, the Muñoz couple and his uncle had been working with Ludman in Patagon since 2005.

The problem was that Muñoz was reluctant to release capital for companies. He came to the area only once and "does not understand why he was losing money with DS Mayer," says one of the hierarchical media working there.

It was Ludman who took the initiative to neutralize the company, as evidenced by the pedigree of his partner and, especially, when he found that the televised revelations of Jorge Lanata whistled near companies Muñoz / Blanco / Pochetti in the region. mountain range However, the company is still active.

The Cipoleño remained afloat with a company that had barely registered, but which had hardly been received from a director, created to advertise, then reoriented to what he knew well: the oil services.

Better, cabins

The tourist and real estate faces of the relatives of Kirchner's late secretary also took place in our region. Cabins for rent, houses and valuable land, boats and trucks have been set up at Villa La Angostura and San Martin de los Andes.

After the frustrating experience of Patagon Adventure in the oil sector, Blanco, Pochetti and Luis Cugino (close architect of Julio De Vido and now charged by Manzanares with the transfer of the bags of money) integrated Patagon Experience SRL, which managed, between Other highlights include the exclusive Patagon SMA cabins complex in San Martin de los Andes. The company, still active, appears in the orbit of another company that would be alien to the original group: Pasión Patagonia, whose partners are a university professor and a trader.

Daniel Blanco also registered Banana Ski Shop for the rental of sportswear in La Angostura.

Pharmacies in the South and Luxury Bricks in the United States and the Caribbean

A few days ago, Manzanares revealed that part of Muñoz's wealth investments had been made in Rio Gallegos when buying several pharmacies forming the Autofarma group. The visible side is Carlos Temístocles Cortez. This systems badyst and sport fisherman is identified as a figurehead in the process of introducing illegal currency into the market ("generating a target"). Luis Cugino, mentioned above, appears as a partner in the constellation Cortez.

Other aspects of the maneuver would be integrated with other members of the family, such as Carlos Gellert, Carolina's cousin and son of Blanca Blanco's first marriage. He figured as an employee of Patagon Adventure, the company Blanco / Pochetti headed by Ludman. He and his wife, Mexican Perla Puente Resendez, were imprisoned.

The testimonies of Pochetti, Manzanares, Juan Manuel Campillo, Cortez and Gellert are essential in attempting to shed light on the exact scale of shocking investments abroad, which included 16

luxury flats, malls in Manhattan and Florida, complex of Turks and Caicos Islands of the British Caribbean, as well as goods in the States of Texas and Monterrey (Mexico). Also to know the destination of the transfers of one million dollars by sea since Panama, the British Virgin Islands and Uruguay