The Office of the Prosecutor requested that the dismissal be revoked …

Prosecutor Franco Picardi baderts that "there is evidence that bribes millionaires were paid to officials of the Ministry of Planning before and after the call for tenders for works of art. burying of the train of Sarmiento (dating from 2006), and asked to lift the lack of merit with which the judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi had benefited from the businessman Angelo Calcaterra, cousin of the president Mauricio Macri of the company Iecsa , and another group of businessmen related to the Transitional Union of Companies (UTE) beneficiaries of this contract, Odebrecht Comsa and Ghella, as well as the alleged intermediary Jorge "Corcho" Rodríguez. The judge stated that they had proved that the offense of bargaining was incompatible with the public service and that some gifts existed, but not bribes.

Picardi's letter, which asks the Federal Chamber to review the judge's decision, says that there were two sets of bribes proven. This indicates a time before the badignment of work, where it was determined, that the companies Iecsa and Comsa paid at least one million pesos to the former Secretary of Transportation, Ricardo Jaime, and this, by through fictitious contracts bearing the signature. Ghost, called CAESA SA, Manuel Vázquez, figurehead of the former head. Vázquez is the former adviser who this year appeared in this case to ask to declare himself repentant. He said $ 20 million had been paid. Iecsa (who was also an Odebrecht partner in this trade union) spoke about bagged deliveries. Then he had an operation in the heart and could not attend another hearing for approval. But Judge Martinez de Giorgi first resolved the lack of merit.

In a second step, says Picardi, when the work has already been awarded, payment methods have become more complex and it has been possible to verify the use of companies. at sea for the triangulation of money and the $ 5 million leak was compared to the Principality of Andorra, to the private bank of this country, which is a tax haven. Santiago Altieri, from Iecsa, reportedly intervened in the operation. In this case, remember the call, a fictitious contract was also used between the four companies of the UTE and the Spanish DSC, which was used by Odebrecht for the payment of bribes. There are incorporated statements to the cause that would accredit it.

According to Picardi, this situation was noticed by the AFIP. During the reconstruction of the monetary route, it was established that the destination was a financing company in Uruguay, where it would have been withdrawn in cash. It is in this country that the signing Sabrimol Trading, attributed to Jorge "Corcho" Rodríguez, that would have operated according to the results of the investigation when receiving bribes from Odebrecht to less, has been detected. The prosecution considers that Rodriguez serves as an intermediary for illegal payments with former officials, Jose Lopez, former secretary of Public Works and Roberto Baratta. This is why Picardi calls for corruption prosecution and inconsistent negotiations for them, Jaime and his successor Juan Pablo Schiavi.

At the time he dictated the resolution that mainly relieved the businessmen, Martínez de Giorgi decided to set aside the criteria he had used when he called them for an investigation, for which he appreciated the statements of the repentants who had testified in the case. Wash jato in Brazil, linking the Argentineans, as in the case of Luiz Mameri, former vice-president of Odebrecht for Latin America. In addition, the journalist Hugo Alconada Mon, The nation, I had noticed these "loosings", showing the videos. But with regard to the resolution of Martinez de Giorgi, he said that the agreement with the Prosecutor General of Brazil had still not progressed, he had just approved this time, waiting for the official reception statements in that country in exchange for guaranteeing that the Brazilians will not be charged in Argentina.

But what the prosecutor pointed out, is that beyond these contributions, there is already evidence in the case of corruption. He recalled that he had badyzed the emails removed from Odebrecht leaders, the non-existent service bills, the plea agreement signed by Odebrecht with the United States, in which he acknowledged the bribes, information from the AFIP and the General Inspectorate of Justice and the Central Bank, as well as documents. kidnapped in raids on information provided by other countries.

For the prosecutor, the accounts of Odebrecht and Ghella must be seized for 300 million pesos, Comsa for 100 million and Angelo Calcaterra (since the majority of shares of Iecsa have been sold), 249 million pesos .

Thus, in addition to appealing for the lack of merit of Calcaterra, the Chamber must consider those of Mario Blanco, Lorenzo Ghella, Riccardo Dina, Gianvincenzo Coppi, Mario Cenciriani, Santiago Altieri, Alejandra Kademian, Manuel Spain, Diego Alonso Hernandez, Pablo Provide , Augusto Adur, Juan Ramón Garrone, Roberto Rodríguez and Diego Pugliesso, all from UTE (Icsa-Odebrecht, Ghella and Comsa). Picardi asks to be prosecuted for corruption. The same thing asked Javier Sánchez Caballero and Héctor Ramón Castro, who had been sued for gifts, a misdemeanor. It was also necessary to aggravate the situation of former officials and to prosecute Manuel Vázquez and Rodríguez. And to determine the role in the bribes of De Vido and other officials. He also appealed the dismissals of Váquez's close relatives (Julián Vázquez, Mariano and Margarita Domínguez), whom he considers to be part of the bribe.

In the meantime, everything seems to indicate that the agreement with Brazil is activated and that Vazquez at one point helps the courts to ratify and process the approval of his repentance.

The call for tenders for the works of Sarmiento took place in 2006. Until shortly before Iecsa belonged to the Macri group, it had pbaded into the hands of the cousin, a kind of continuity; today, it is in the hands of the government 's allied businessman, Marcelo Mindlin.