01/17/2021 8:11 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 01/17/2021 8:14 PM
Although he has a monopoly on the chlorine business and his Transclor group has a turnover of
around $ 12 billion a year
, Mauricio Filiberti is one of those entrepreneurs who does not appear in the sectorial chambers.
From time to time he went through the Idea colloquium in Mar del Plata and felt like an
outsider
.
Much more comfortable is his relationship with politics.
He comes from afar and transcends the rift, judging by those who have stayed on his
spectacular yacht
in exclusive Saint Tropez.
His name now surfaced due to the purchase of Edenor by José Luis Manzano and Daniel Vila.
In that company, the 51% of the largest electricity distribution company owned up to now by Marcelo Mindlin, Manzano-Vila and Filiberti are
in three equal parts
.
Close to Filiberti, whom in the business environment they call Mister Chlorine, they say that he is
Edenor's largest client
and that since Mauricio Macri's time he wanted to venture into electricity.
Thus,
a long-standing relationship with Manzano
is allowed to transcend
,
who would have added him for the operation, which until now was not approved by the regulatory entities.
Filiberti, 72, started in the chlorine business when in 1987 he imported surpluses from Uruguay to Argentina.
It had its first plant ready in 1989 and since then it has been
the great provider of Sanitary Works
, which continued with the French from Suez who were associated with Santiago Soldati when it was privatized, and currently with the re-nationalized Aysa.
Filiberti partnered with Vila y Manzano to buy 51% of Edenor.
Those sales represent
20% of your turnover
.
The contract with AySa, similar to the one it currently has with various provincial and municipal water services, made it grow until it developed
a water treatment industry
that provides the full service, including logistics with sophisticated delivery trucks.
Of course, it is ensured that it does not have direct contracts with state companies but rather tenders.
The truth is that
no competitors are known
.
From the high-tech plant in the Pilar Industrial Park, about
25,000 tons of chlorine come out
per month, in addition to coagulants and even the base for glyphosate that is used in planting crops.
Almost all the chlorine consumed,
even in the form of bleach
with the best-known brands on the supermarket shelves, is made in the Filiberti factory.
His next industrial venture is a new plant in which he
has just invested US $ 30 million
with Swedish technology for the export of poly aluminum chloride, which is used to decant inorganic matter into water.
When asked about his relationship with the unionist José Luis Lingeri (historical general secretary of the Sanitary Works workers and heavyweight of the CGT), they slip that it
is very close
since the unionist “closely follows each contract of Aysa ”.
He is obviously a very related man.
On his last birthday, in the exclusive spa of José Ignacio, Uruguay, at the La Caracola parador, which is only accessible on a boat provided by the owners of the place, Federico Salvai and his wife Carolina Stanley were there just before the pandemic and Augusto Rodríguez Larreta, brother of the Buenos Aires Head of Government, to Pepe Scioli, the brother of the now ambassador to Brazil,
Daniel Scioli
.
They also link him with the president of the Chamber of Deputies,
Sergio Massa
: his wife, Malena Galmarini, is the president of AySA.
Filiberti does not deny having a good relationship with Massa, also in close contact with Vila and Manzano.
One of his most prized possessions, which he justifies by his passion for sailing, is the 64Steel Attila, the
mega yacht
he acquired two years ago, valued at more than 20 million dollars.
The ship, built by the Sanlorenzo Americas shipyard, located in Fort Lauderdale,
is 64 meters long
and is one of the most luxurious in the hands of national businessmen.
Moored in Saint Tropez.
Maurcio Macri came to meet him in 2020, a few days before landing in his new job as president of the FIFA Foundation in Geneva.
Those who know him well, who are few, report that just as he likes to navigate, he hates flying.
Maybe that's why
his air taxi company
was left in the hands of his ex-wife.
It is not a small thing, since each aircraft in the fleet is valued at more than a million dollars.
Filiberti, married in a second nuptials with a young model, appeared in
some legal cases
that in his environment play down the importance.
The best known is because he had sold a California model Ferrari - they say for $ 380,000 - to the businessman and real estate developer Carlos Morinari, in turn related to Leonardo Fariña, to the point that he paid for the wedding with the model Karina Jelinek.
In 2017, due to the money laundering carried out by the government of Mauricio Macri, he was mentioned as having extracted 13 million dollars from the country.
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