They sued a group of financiers who washed $ 60 million with Lázaro Báez

A group of bankers and bank employees must stand trial for helping to wash $ 60 million from the Santa Cruz Lázaro Báez business man overseas. Báez, continued alongside former President Cristina Kirchner in the public works and Hotesur business, is already the subject of a lawsuit with her children and the "repentant" Leonardo Fariña among others, for the so-called itinerary of money K.

But during this investigation, we discovered maneuvers describing a mechanism of financial operations that splashed even the names of football players. Carlos Tevez and Gustavo Heinze and the main part of the case have not been tried.

According to the resolution he accepted Infobae, Federal Judge Sebastián Casanello has now reached this investigation and decided to refer to the trial the oral defenders José Alex Ariel Fallas, Jose Sebastián Jabbaz, Mariano Andrés Rubinowicz and Jorge Horacio Ruiz – the leaders of the cabinet Provalor Sociedad de Bolsa-; and Martín Andrés Eraso and Juan Alberto De Rasis – a former employee of the Lombard Odier bench and his boss.

They are all accused of being co-perpetrators of the crime of money laundering and the judge seized them by figures ranging from 144 million to 716 million pesos. It is for having "intervened in the constitution of a legal, commercial and banking structure in Argentina and abroad for the channeling, the conversion, the transfer, the administration, the sale, the concealment and / or the setting in circulation on the market, Lázaro Antonio Báez funds, of illicit origin, in order to break all links with the facts that caused them, then to convert them and to integrate them into the formal economic circuit under the guise of legality. "

According to the resolution, the maneuver was carried out "by means ofcomplex financial procedures for expatriation, the least and taking into account the period 2010-2011, of a sum close to 60 million, for its subsequent reintroduction to the local market through operations financial, including the operation The Argentine public debt and its subsequent liquidation on the Rosario stock market, badets that ended up in the coffers of Austral Construcciones SA ".

The prosecutor, Guillermo Marijuan, said: "The money was bought" by the business group of Lázaro Báez as part of a broad scenario of institutional corruption "for the cause of public works . This is why the former president, the former Minister of Planning, Julio De Vido, the former secretary, José López and Báez himself were tried on 26 February.

Provalor, "funds of illicit origin were sent abroad through a financial intermediation service commonly known as" compensation "or" cables "proposed in this entity and, through this mechanism, a sum US $ 1,500 has been expatriated in order to take over the ownership of this money, a subsidiary of the Panamanian firm Teegan Inc. has been registered in the country of Belize According to Casanello, the financiers have made their financial structure available to the Báez and they provided him with "contact with the representative of the Lombard Odier Bank, a direction to obtain the signature Teegan Inc. Belize, in favor of Martín Báez, and the services of sending funds to the Abroad through non-regulatory mechanisms and any control body ".

In the case, it was argued that Teegan lacked real activity but had been used to open bank account No. 509755 in the Swiss bank Lombard Odier, based in Geneva, whose employee Martín Andrés Eraso at the request of his supervisor, Juan Alberto De Rasis, was introduced by the administrators of Provalor to Jorge Leonardo Fariña. " Fariña acted on behalf of the Báez family and Martín Antonio Báez signed the corresponding opening forms.

With this company at their disposal, the accused opened account number 511656 with Lombard Odier, whose Panamanian representatives signed the respective forms on 9 September 2011. It is stated that the four children of Lázaro Báez are the beneficiaries. ultimately and who have the power as signatories Daniel Pérez Gadín and Jorge Chueco. "Throughout the year in which he was active, each debit was made immediately after receiving income to maintain a balance close to zero, which proves the badumption of a Relay Account. As mentioned earlier, deposits exceeded 42 million US dollars in one year.said the judge.

"Half of the" money market "is found to be the income from previous cash outflows for income seeking in a bank investment fund, with more than 20%, or nearly 9 million USD, being identified as funds from: Panamanian group SGI Argentina SA from the same offshore group, representing 15 deposits averaging USD 583,000 in revenue each and still from the Bank of Nova Scotia Panama via JP Morgan Chase Bank of New York and the investment bank Swiss Piguet Galland & Cie, A good part of the rest corresponds to fractions of revenues from various natural and legal persons – respectively 12 and 15 transfers – among those who are Gabriel Heinze ($ 180 thousand on February 16, 2012) and Carlos Alberto Tevez ($ 550 thousand on February 16, 2012)he discussed.

"Behind these transfers, according to the testimonies incorporated, the Provalor Stock Exchange played the role of intermediary," it was pointed out. Mariano Aguilar, representative of Heinze and Tevez, said the transfers concerned "the year 2012 when many restrictions were imposed on the repatriation of funds".