Judge Canicoba Corral called three former ministers and other Macri officials for investigation in the case for the renewal of road concessions

06/30/2020 - 18:15

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Federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral called on Tuesday to investigate the former Macrist Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich, the former holder of National Roads Javier Iguacel and the former attorney general of the Treasury, Bernardo Saravia Frías, among others, in the case for alleged irregularities in the renewal of tolls for the Sol del Sol and Grupo Concesionario del Oeste toll roads. The measure includes a ban on leaving the country and also covers Ricardo Stoddart, former Economy Minister Nicolás Dujovne and Andrés Barbieri.

Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli's instruction request was from 2019 but Canicoba resolved this Tuesday. Canicoba is due to retire at the end of the month , after the start of a impeachment trial in the Judicial Council was suspended for the fourth time. If President Alberto Fernández does not send the document back to the Senate, he must retire.

In mid-June, the judge had announced that "before the quarantine ends there will be news " in the case investigating alleged irregularities in the renewal of road concessions during the management of Cambiemos in a case opened by a complaint by the former director of Counterintelligence of the AFI and deputy of the Frente de Todos Rodolfo Tailhade ..

In the middle of the month, Canicoba had said that "the investigation is advanced and came at a sustained rate until the pandemic appeared, slowing down the procedures, but the case continued to advance with diligence abroad and before the quarantine ends there will be important news ", announced the magistrate.

In statements made to a radio, he stated that, within the framework of that file, "the tax charge does not reach (former President Mauricio) Macri, but there are a number of officials from the previous government who are under investigation."

In this context, he indicated that "an enormous amount of evidence was gathered" and confirmed that, as "one of the parties to the concession is domiciled in Barcelona, ​​Spain, a series of proceedings was requested."

In this case, the alleged crimes of defrauding the State and negotiations incompatible with the public function are investigated in the framework of the renewal of contracts for road concessions with Autopistas del Sol and Grupo Concesionario Oeste that had been linked to the Macri family.

"Investigating a government when it is in power is difficult in all cases, but much progress was made towards the end of the previous administration and I had no pressure to prevent it from progressing, " Canicoba Corral said.

Rodolfo Canicoba Corral requested through a warrant sent to the Foreign Ministry to carry out a series of raids in Barcelona, ​​Spain, at the offices of the Abertis company, within the framework of this cause.