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National government to penalize another irregularity committed during the administration of Adolfo Rubinstein at the head of the Health portfolio, during the macrista administration of Juntos por el Cambio. According to an internal investigation, the minister was then demoted to the post of secretary authorized the purchase of fortified powdered milk at one price, then paid for another, readjusted to the current inflation rate. The possible crime that caused “economic damage to the state” will reach the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Prosecutor’s Office for Administrative Investigations (PIA).

The decision taken by the portfolio led by Carla Vizzotti was published in the Official Journal by resolution 8323/2020. There, the maneuver is detailed and the Directorate of Judicial Affairs of the Ministry of Health receives the order to “Formulate a criminal complaint” against former officials of Juntos por el Cambio who participated in “The possible commission of a crime to the detriment of the public administration”.

This is not the first time that an irregularity has been detected in the management of Rubinstein, who keeps scouring the media giving recommendations on how public health should be administered.

When the ministry was headed by Ginés González García, it was revealed how the government of Mauricio Macri had expired more than 4 million vaccines at a time when hundreds of measles cases were re-emerging in the country, a disease that had been eliminated for years. In addition, the former Secretary of Health himself was denounced for the readjustment of contracts with various pharmaceutical companies for the purchase of drugs.

According to this new complaint, in february 2018, before accepting without reproach that his portfolio of health was demoted from ministry to secretary, Rubinstein has signed an offer to purchase fortified powdered milk from the company Manfrey Cooperativa de Tamberos, for a total of 76,280,000 pesos.

However, in January 2019, already demoted to the post of secretary, made it possible to increase this value by 20% with the excuse of rising prices due to inflation. In other words, the price initially agreed was not respected, but was readjusted at its discretion.

The request had been made by Manfrey, who raised the “price renegotiation” with the argument that the one agreed in the award had been “totally distorted” after the widespread increases, product of successive devaluations of Macri.

The overpayment was 4,576,800 pesos, according to the approval of the purchasing and contracts department which recalculated the order of the company tambera.

The renegotiation of prices was approved by the departments of the economy of health and maternity, children and adolescents, with the explanation that at that time there was a “lack of stock of the benchmark input to meet demand”.

This measure “violates not only the applicable regulations in this area, but also constitutes a violation of the general principles to which the contracts of the national administration must conform“said resolution 832 signed by Vizzotti, which detected the maneuver.

According to the document released this morning, The maneuver is in contradiction with what is established in the procurement regime of the national administration, which dates from 2001. In this way, the minister ordered that “damaging actions” be taken against Rubinstein for the “economic damage to the state” which led to her decision.

In addition an administrative summary will be opened “In order to clarify the facts and circumstances” linked to this irregularity of the government of Juntos por el Cambio. Likewise, still according to resolution 832, Legal proceedings will be initiated for the “recovery of the sums paid for the renegotiation” reported.

By the same measure, the Minister Vizzotti also demanded that the case be notified to the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Office of the Prosecutor for Administrative Investigations (PIA), as well as the Tambera company. involved in the fact.