07/03/2020 - 21:16
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Víctor Fabián Gutiérrez is one of the people who formed the most trusted circle of the late former President Néstor Kirchner and the current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Because of that close relationship, he was part of the team that Kirchner headed when he was governor of Santa Cruz and then accompanied him on his ascent to the Casa Rosada, where he served as deputy secretary of the Presidency between 2003 and 2010.
He entered the Caja de Servicios Sociales de Santa Cruz as a cadet in 1994 and then met Néstor Kirchner, with whom he began working in 1995, during his second term as governor.
He participated in meetings, trips, roasts and political situations that surrounded the former presidents. Although in 2010 he left his position in the national government, he remained close to power and was even one of those elected to participate, on December 9, 2015, in the last official act that Cristina Kirchner headed as President of the Nation.
After leaving the national government, Gutiérrez settled in El Calafate, where his ventures grew and he acquired several properties. that movement of money became so significant that it raised suspicions. From there, the causes of illicit enrichment and laundering began to surround him.
But of the multiple judicial investigations, there was one that marked a before and after in the relationship with Cristina Kirchner: Gutiérrez decided to become one of the key repentants in the case that was launched with the notes of Oscar Centeno, the driver of Roberto Baratta who described in his writings the operation of a network to collect bribes related to public works.
Thus, Gutiérrez went from being one of Cristina Kirchner's closest collaborators to one of the accused collaborators who provided some of the most relevant evidence for the progress of the investigation in which it is a question of investigating whether the now Vice President headed that illicit association. .
He spoke of bags with money traveling to El Calafate, of "spaces intended to store bags that were inaccessible to all and only Néstor Kirchner entered."
He said, within the framework of that investigation, that on various occasions he saw the deceased Daniel Muñoz (former secretary of Néstor Kirchner) transfer bags to the residence located in El Calafate and in Río Gallegos.
Gutiérrez was the one who assured prosecutor Carlos Stornelli and the late judge Claudio Bonadio that a vault was built in a Kirchner residence in El Calafate to store bags and that "only Néstor Kirchner entered."
