Daniel Santoro
05/30/2020 - 18:13
- Clarín.com
- Politics
After a scandal , legislators from Cambiemos stopped two plays of Kirchnerism this week in the Bicameral Commission for the Control of Intelligence Organizations. One was to "make a show" with a complaint from a former AFI agent and lawyer in favor of Pablo Moyano in the trial by the Barrabravas of Independiente and another that would try to discover who leaked the wiretaps of the Operational Puf to Elisa Carrió. .
The reserved meeting of that commission last Wednesday began with a tough cross between Senator K and former AFI chief Oscar Parrilli and Cambiemos deputy José Cano. It was an exchange of accusations about alleged illegal espionage in the governments of Cristina Kirchner and Mauricio Macri. Parrilli began by denouncing the "sewers" of intelligence in the Macri government and Cano replied: "His boss had intelligence files on Judge Bonadio, Judge Arroyo Salgado, the buyers of dollars ... Take charge of your sewer senator before talk".
The chairman of the commission, deputy of the All Front Leopoldo Moreau called for restraint and the session resumed, according to parliamentary sources consulted by Clarín . After an hour and a half of debate it was decided to request an extension of the complaint made by the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Cristina Caamano , about alleged illegal espionage during the government of Mauricio Macri. And Cano asked Caamano to explain "what the chain of custody was like" during these last six months from the computer that they presented as evidence before Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi to demonstrate that the mails of 85 politicians, journalists and police officers had been intercepted. Federal prosecutor Jorge Di Lello imputed Macri this week for that Caamano complaint.
As these cases progress, the Ks also want to remove the wiretapping office from the Court that is within the Directorate of Judicial Assistance in Complex Crimes and Organized Crime (DAJUDECO) to pass it on to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation in the hope of that Judge Daniel Rafecas be appointed to that office. However, after the offensive K to achieve Cristina's impunity in the causes for the pact with Iran, Hotesur and others, the heads of the blocks of deputies of Together for Change, Mario Negri , and of Senators, Luis Naidenoff , They said they will not give the quorum for the Rafecas nomination. Although there is still a formal decision from the political action table of the main opposition force to give a final word.
Then the legislators K, on the one hand, proposed to summon the former AFI agent and lawyer Facundo Melo to testify to the commission, who denounced to the K media that he had received instructions from that body to "manipulate" the statements of the independent Barrabrava Damián Lagaronne - after Bebote Alvarez repented - and thus "harm" Pablo Moyano in the case investigated by prosecutor Sebastián Scalera. Melo was a lawyer for Lagaronne.
However, Cano and Cristian Ritondo imposed that before citing anyone , copies of the cases opened by Melo's statements before judge Ariel Lijo and by the AFI complaint against Melo for having violated the secret of the intelligence law be requested. by counting the alleged instructions he received, his status as a hired agent and the names of other agents that federal judge Daniel Rafecas has. Melo stated that he received instructions to go against Moyano "from the former director of Special Operations of the AFI, Alán Ruiz."
In parallel, the defense of Pablo Moyano requested the nullity of the case that had the prosecutor Esteban Scalera and the attorney general of Lomas de Zamora, Federico Ferrari, dissolved the Unit for Complex Crimes and Organized Crime that investigated the causes for the independent Barrabravas in which Pablo Moyano is investigated, as Clarín advanced this week exclusively. Judge Luis Carzoglio, who originally had the cause of the Barrabrava de Independiente, at the time denounced pressure from two former directors of the macrista AFI to arrest Pablo Moyano. Instead, Arribas stated in 2019 before this same commission that he sent them to ask him if it was true that he was going to order the preventive detention of the vice president of the Avellaneda club to take "preventive measures before because they assumed that the truckers were going to carry out protests." Like Carzoglio, he was suspended for irregularities in other cases and the Independent case was left to Judge Brenda Madrid.
On the other hand, the K wanted to start a subcommittee to investigate the complaint of the ex-AFI agent and undersecretary of International Defense Affairs, José Luis Vila , who was sent home in 2018 with a trotyl loaf in a Entrusted with a message that said "Vila burglar." Vila told the commission - last December - that in a drug trafficking case that has the federal judge of Lomas de Zamora, Federico Villena, a defendant would have indicated that he was hired by "an AFI lawyer" from Gustavo Arribas to send that explosive device that was not in a position to explode.
In tune with this move, the K media claimed that Villena raided the Intelligence Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service in this case this week and that the file would also investigate who leaked the telephone conversations of former K officials incarcerated in the prison of Ezeiza to Carrió. The then deputy had announced in February 2019 on Twitter -a day before the Kirchner operators- that the Operational Bean Bag had been launched against the cause of the bribery notebooks. This move K allowed the opening of the case against Marcelo D'Alessio in the Dolores court, in a typical Forum Shopping maneuver. In turn, with those eavesdropping Carrió opened a case that Judge Claudio Bonadio investigated until he died and which now has his deputy Marcelo Martínez Di Giorgi. The annulment of this cause is another of the K's obsessions . This would be one of the issues for which former AFI number two, Juan Martín Mena, opposes Emiliano Blanco being named head of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
Also, the K asked to summon La Nación journalist Carlos Pagni as a result of a note that he published about how spies worked in Macri's time, but Ritondo categorically opposed "putting on a show with the media."
The deputy and former deputy director of Counterintelligence of the AFI Rodolfo Tailhade, and his colleagues Eduardo Valdés (another of the promoters of the Operational Puf), Blanca Osuna and Gerardo Montenegro, for the oficialismo, also participated in the bicameral commission meeting this week. and the opponents Cano, Ritondo, and Sebastián García De Luca, among others.
At the end of the meeting, Cano asked the AFI intervener to explain "what is your intelligence plan, especially in matters of international terrorism, since the only thing we know is that it informs the president every day how the coronavirus is expanding." Instead, Moreau said that "no later than Tuesday we will receive the response of the justice (to those requests) and from there we will call the meeting to discuss other evidence measures or other calls to the AFI agents involved ." His words show that he is in a hurry and anticipate that the tension in that commission next week will increase.