Lucia Salinas
02/19/2020 - 15:33
- Clarín.com
- Politics
This Wednesday, the Báez family heard the first accusation of the intervening complaints in the case, against him. The AFIP, which had initiated its allegation two weeks ago, requested an eight-year sentence of effective imprisonment.
"It has been proven in this trial that Lázaro Báez", his sons, Leonardo Fariña, Federico Elaskar and other defendants, "were part of the band with assigned roles," which kept "constant fluids between them," said AFIP during his plea referring to the usual money laundering maneuver that led them all to oral trial. " Lázaro Báez always from the shadow gave the orders that others had to comply," said the complaint in his statement during the stage of allegations in the trial of "the route of money K".
Before the Federal Oral Court 4 (TOF 4), composed of Judges Néstor Costabell, María Gabriela López Íñiguez and Adriana Pallioti, the AFIP requested that "the band" that acted "regularly to commit criminal maneuvers" be convicted.
Among the defendants who asked to testify again, is the former lawyer of Báez, Jorge Chueco, Fabián Rossi and the former valijero, Leonardo Fariña.
Regarding the children of businessman K, the complaint said that everyone acted with knowledge of the actions his father committed.
Judge Sebastián Casanello prosecuted Cristina Kirchner's business partner three times, for money laundering whose previous offense was considered the money generated from the public work received by businessman K during the Kirchner government.
The offense attributed to this case, and which confirmed the complaint in his allegation, was considered a "conglobant prosecution" for "integrating a band dedicated to laundering money between 2010 and 2013 aggravated by habituality." On this occasion, Judge Casanello took into account the "fundraising in Switzerland". Until now, Lázaro Báez had been prosecuted for the externalization of money and his re-entry into the country.
In this case, Baez has been imprisoned for more than three years , and a few months ago his son Martin was arrested. In addition, their other children, Luciana, Leandro and Melina were prosecuted ; Leonardo Fariña, Federico Elaskar, Fabián Rossi, Jorge Chueco, Daniel Pérez Gadín , among others.
In the file the existence of a structure of "companies and bank accounts abroad that allowed the laundering of at least sixty million dollars" was corroborated, so the seizure of those processed 600 million dollars to each one, because the maximum penalty was applied: ten times the sum of money that was washed.
The accusation that was read during the trial, made by prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan, argues that the defendants "achieved that purpose through the acquisition of goods worth more than two thousand seven hundred thirty-four million pesos, equivalent to about one hundred eighty-six million dollars. "
Another thing that was confirmed for justice, is that the "illegitimate origin of the funds" that were used for money laundering maneuvers, is in the direction of public works, investigated in another file.
