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The FIU accused Mauricio Macri and the owners of Grupo Vicentín of money laundering

2020-06-12T19:46:38.691Z


The agency asked for the inhibition of assets of the former president and other former officials.Lucia Salinas 06/12/2020 - 10:41 Clarín.com Politics In the midst of political debate over President Alberto Fernández's decision to expropriate the Vicentin Group, the Financial Information Unit (FIU) presented a 21-page report accusing Mauricio Macri and the company in the framework of money laundering operations. of the cause where the credits that the Banco Nación, during the previous admini...


Lucia Salinas

06/12/2020 - 10:41

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

In the midst of political debate over President Alberto Fernández's decision to expropriate the Vicentin Group, the Financial Information Unit (FIU) presented a 21-page report accusing Mauricio Macri and the company in the framework of money laundering operations. of the cause where the credits that the Banco Nación, during the previous administration, granted to the cereal company are investigated. In addition, the FIU required the inhibition of assets and the investigation of the assets of the former president.

At the beginning of the year, the federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita charged the former head of the Banco de la Nación Argentina, Javier González Fraga , and those responsible for the Vicentín firm, Alberto Padoan and Gustavo Nardelli, in a complaint for alleged irregularities in the granting of loans to that business group. 

The cereal company was the main contributor of money in the presidential campaign of Mauricio Macri and requested the opening of his preventive contest before the Court of First Instance District No. 4 in Civil and Commercial, Second Nomination, of Reconquista, Santa Fe.

The federal court case began as a result of a complaint made on January 27 by Fernando Miguez, President of the Foundation for Peace and Climate Change, who cited the "First Report on the situation of the Vicentín firm" on 16 January 2020 prepared by the director of the Banco Nación Claudio Lozano, who analyzed the economic situation of the company and the loans granted by the previous management of the BNA. Lozano made that report when Vicentin publicly announced that he was in a "financial stress" situation that would not allow him to meet his obligations.

Miguez's complaint highlighted the possible existence of a maneuver by which the National State would have been harmed "through the irregular granting of loans by the Banco de la Nación Argentina in favor of the firm VICENTÍN SA, which allowed the company accumulate a debt with the bank of 18,500 million pesos, which currently would be of uncertain collection since the company is in a state of cessation of payments. "

Now, Javier Claudio Castelli, head of the UIF, presented a brief to the public prosecutor Pollicita and said that the granting of the credits to Vicentin "not only implies a possible and large fraud against the Banco de la Nación Argentina", but there was also " millionaire movements of funds to off-shore accounts through complex money laundering maneuvers to the investigation of which we want to contribute as closely as possible in time to the facts under analysis. "

For this reason, the head of the FIU considered that it is important "the dictation of urgent precautionary measures that prevent defendants from dispossessing their assets or continue to make the traceability of money complex in order to make it difficult to monitor economic-financial movements, preventing in this way not only the recovery of the committed assets but also the investigation of the material truth ".

In this sense, he asked for "the general inhibition of the assets of Alberto PADOAN and Gustavo NARDELLI, as well as Mauricio MACRI, Javier GONZALEZ FRAGA and Guido SANDLERIS", according to the document to which Clarín agreed.

When referring to the alleged money laundering operations, the FIU maintained that "VICENTIN SAIC is part of a corporate network that includes 16 firms in the country and many others in Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Spain." In turn, he said that "the role of RENOVA, a firm that channels part of the group's grain business and in which the strategic agreement that VICENTIN has with the GLENCORE Group, one of the largest grain traders in the world".

According to the FIU, the Group "in 2018 billed $ 219 billion, employs more than 152,000 people worldwide and has a fleet of its own larger than the British navy." For the FIU, there is "a huge transnational company that has been the subject of judicial investigations for evasion and fraud in various jurisdictions." 

In the complaint, it is claimed that Vicentín is already being investigated for "alleged money laundering through transfers made to the NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TUCUMAN by YACIMIENTOS MINEROS DE AGUAS DE DIONISIO (YMAD), a firm controlled by MINERA LA ALUMBRERA LTDA, which in turn belongs to the GLENCORE company ", which appears in the investigation of the Panama Papers.

For this reason, for the FIU, Vicentin "would not only have simulated its default status, but, in turn, would have used its structure abroad and / or GLENCORE to remit its earnings abroad." And therefore, the body says, it must be investigated in this case also for bleaching.

Source: clarin

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