The Macrista lawyers of the FIU who were on both sides of the counter | Complaint for use of sensitive information in the prosecution of CFK

The FIU began to collaborate with the first case on Pacheco in May 2019, as this newspaper learned from people close to this agency. This case had been entrusted to Judge Alicia Vence in San Martín and had accumulated with another in Morón, in the hands of Judge Jorge Rodríguez, who held “El Rengo” in his mansion in Parque Leloir, surrounded by luxury. The presentation of Deputy Tailhade, moreover, recalls that Olari dealt with the case of another drug trafficker, Miguel “Mameluco” Villalba, where the figure of Pacheco appeared, although they had a territorial dispute. His colleague Biancardi was the head of the agency’s criminal litigation area, where complaints and other legal interventions were crafted. Pacheco and his entourage are accused of drug trafficking and money laundering: during searches, documents of all kinds were found on properties, companies, mutuals and papers that would represent companies in other countries like Uruguay. The papers were placed under the ceramic tiles in one of the bathrooms, in a toolbox, and also in a vault installed under a small house in the garden.

Tailhade’s complaint indicates that on leaving the civil service, along with Biancardi and Olari Ugrotte, another former head of the FIU’s “litigation” joined a law firm, Facundo Orazi, and recalls that they worked as a team within the anti-money laundering agency with Gonzalo Romero, also noted in the document. “This team of professionals has sued in seventeen criminal cases against the current vice president of the nation. These seventeen prosecutions have been involved in much more than active promotion and demand, in many cases, evidence. irrelevant which resulted in clear media operations. ” describes the approach.

The FIU, in fact, was one of the key bodies, like the Anti-Corruption Office, which the Cambiemos government used to systematic implementation of legal cases. The four denounced left their functions at the end of January 2020 and, citing this experience, they generally offer their services as experts in “regrets”. “The FIU not only trained them, but also opened up to them what is most precious: access to sensitive information both nationally and internationally. It can’t just be a scandal, these professionals have criminal liability, ”Tailhade warns.

The law on public ethics and the FIU’s own rules do not provide for any incompatibilities for the positions occupied by these four lawyers, but, says the deputy, “the criminal law affects them and that is why it is necessary to investigate whether the FIU received any suspicious operation reports regarding the defendants in the aforementioned criminal case – not just those defended by Biancardi and Olari – while these lawyers were on duty, or whether the agency collaborated in the case Pacheco. “They also warn that there may be a to the detriment of the state for “the abusive use of acquired means” which could be used “for their own benefit or for the defense of those who commit the crimes which the State intends to prevent and punish”.

Former directors of the FIU Mariano Federico and Maria Eugenia Talerico They are already the subject of an investigation in a case which reveals a possible concealment mechanism in the organization of money laundering operations linked to drug trafficking. The complaint was also lodged by Tailhade and already contains testimonies from former members of the advisory council who told prosecutor Alejandra Mángano and judge Luis Rodríguez that Cambiemos management at the FIU avoided sanctioning HSBC bank in a case linked to Colombian drug lord Henry de Jesús López Lodoño, known as “My Blood”. In 2018, the council in question recommended sanctioning the bank for failing to comply with procedures to prevent money laundering, but nothing was done. Talerico had been a lawyer for HSBC in at least three cases, which was part of the objections when she was appointed at the start of the Macri government, but nothing happened either.

On the Rengo Pacheco on file there would already be at least since 2018 indications of the alleged money laundering And if, as certain documents indicate, he would have tried to get involved in the money laundering of the Macri government, even though he had not declared any activity or elementary registers to AFIP and ANSES , it is sung that the UIF would have had information on this subject, in addition to collaborating in the cause.

This week, the Anti-Corruption Office released a resolution announcing the creation of a system of control of private activities before and after the exercise of the public function, to save the ties and private interests of those who rise to high positions in the state. It could be used to warn in time the situations of the characteristics of the people denounced to the FIU.