The Panama Papers: the case that triggered a desperate reaction to erase the traces

The revelations of the repentance of the cause of the notebooks show the impact that the revelation of offshore companies has had on the kirchnerist circle

Shortly before his death, the former private secretary of Kirchner

Daniel Muñoz

He confessed to the respondent that he had made a very serious mistake. The

Panama Papers

It was already a nascent global scandal and he confided that he had turned to offshore companies and had bought properties abroad, but that he was not the only one in the world. He had put them in his name, so that everything might be brought to light, according to the confessions of several repentants of the

the notebooks

from corruption to those who accepted
THE NATION.

The Panama Papers scandal has also sparked further reactions. The former president

Cristina Kirchner

she asked her entourage what part of these revelations was true and to understand, according to her own account, certain behaviors hitherto without explanation. For example, he asked his accountant Víctor Manzanares what he knew about Muñoz's offshore activities. The response she received led her to make a comment. "No wonder it took him so long to return the keys to the apartment on Uruguay Street," according to the version given by Manzanares to prosecutors, as "repentant". This is the Recoleta soil that served as a safe for money bags. Meanwhile, Muñoz tried to cover his tracks. And for that, he relied on a small circle of people. Among others, Manzanares, as well as another private secretary of the presidential wedding, Isidro Bunin, who has partnered with the lawyer Miguel Ángel Plo and Oncca Juan's oncologist Manuel Campillo.

April 4, 2016,
THE NATION he had revealed that Muñoz had accumulated activities in tax havens. Among others, through the intermediary of an offshore company located in the British Virgin Islands, according to papers from the Panama Papers, the global project led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the German newspaper
Süddeutsche Zeitung. These internal documents from the Mossack Fonseca study revealed that Muñoz and his wife, Carolina Pochetti, had used Glod Black Limited to acquire at least one property in the United States. And in this offshore company, also included, among others, Sergio Marquesan Todisco, with real estate in Miami for at least 65 million US dollars. As in dozens of other criminal investigations, journalists from
THE NATION They were summoned to testify in court and provided copies of offshore documentation. But at the same time, as it begins to appear, Muñoz's environment has tried to clean up and conceal his tracks, as many have admitted in the folder of the bribe notebooks to during the last weeks.

"I knew that Campillo was the Minister of the Economy of Santa Cruz, but I know him when my husband introduced him to my house and that he came with Isidro Bunin," recalled Pochetti. after the death of Muñoz. "There was a meeting at which all three participated and it was after Panama Papers. [?] Campillo offered to solve or order questions from companies abroad. Muñoz of the Panama Papers was very scared, but he did not tell me because he was very advanced and I did not want to ask him. I was devoted to his care, not to all that. Muñoz was scared and he asked me to forgive him the disaster that he left me, which greatly afflicted him.

In the same vein, Todisco said that when the "whole issue" of the Panama Papers "leaped forward," Campillo, Pochetti and Plo helped disarm the fabric of the company. " , while his ex-wife Elizabeth Ortiz Municoy had recalled that "it was very suddenly they sent these people [a Estados Unidos] after the Panama Papers. "I lived in Miami. Then he called me Juan Manuel Campillo, we were in my office. He said that he was going to liquidate all the properties and take the money abroad, "he said. Campillo came with his nephew, Gastón Campillo. They told me that they were ordered to liquidate everything, that they had charged $ 4.8 million for this task. "

In front of Prosecutor Stornelli, Manzanares also spoke of Muñoz's efforts to limit the impact of the Panama Papers revelations, for which he solicited his help and informed him that Isidro Bunin would also give him a coup. hand. Manzanares also said that Bunin would be responsible for hiring a person with media ties and that Muñoz would have been ordered to pay $ 100,000 so that the revelations about Muñoz go unnoticed, especially in the media.
Clarin and
THE NATION, which at that time had already revealed its appearance in the Panama Papers. Since April 2016, this newspaper has published more than 60 articles and columns in which it refers to the deceased private secretary of Kirchner and their offshore fortune.