They sue businessman Matías Garfunkel and seize him for $ 150 million – 27/02/2019

The businessman Matías Garfunkel was sued by Judge Gustavo Meirovich, who also he locked a $ 150 million seizure. He accuses him of escaping the payment of income tax through a $ 20 million transfer that allegedly "donated" his mother Monica Madanes in September 2010.

A few months after this maternal "donation", In February 2011, Garfunkel paid Sergio Szpolski $ 12.5 million, In the midst of his then-flourishing group of K. At that time, the group of twenty-three included the Argentine Time newspaper, the free Argentina newspaper, Radio America, the CN23 news channel, and the weekly newspapers Veintitrés and Looks to the South, among others.

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Justice Meirovich claimed that Garfunkel had escaped payment of $ 29.45 million of the income tax corresponding to the year 2010, since this "supposed gift" was challenged by AFIP, "for not having proved conclusively the real existence of this one, by granting to this sum the treatment of an unjustified capital increase, corresponding to the presumption of the existence of hidden rents having to pay the tax on income "

The magistrate ordered that the proceedings against Garfunkel unfold "without pre-trial detention" as long as the merits of the case last. Although he specified that in case of conviction, he should go to prison, since the punishment for this crime varies between three years and six months imprisonment and up to nine years imprisonment. This means that it is not an excelable crime because the amount avoided exceeds one million pesos.

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Judge Meirovich also tried Garfunkel in another case of illegal export of works of art that, moreover, they were under embargo. In this case, the Chamber of Cbadation had ratified a $ 35 million embargo.

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Garfunkel is based in the United States since early 2016, since he says he lives a "forced exile" in this country, for allegations of threats made against him and his family by his former partners and leaders of the Szpolski group. Victoria Vanucci's husband also has another privilege, for 33 million pesos, which was blocked by the AFIP, for the continued contributions of his employees, while he was a member of Szpolski in the group dissolved media K Twenty-three.

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