Lucia Salinas
06/16/2020 - 11:46
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Despite having filed the complaint at the beginning of the year and that the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita initiated a criminal case in February, Banco Nación had not initiated any administrative investigation to internally investigate the controversial credits to the Vicentin group. He did so three months later, after being asked to do so by the Administrative Investigations Office (PIA). That specialized prosecution was constituted as a plaintiff in the summary.
Prior to the start of the pandemic and with the cause already filed in the Comodoro Py Courts, the PIA led by the national prosecutor Sergio Rodríguez ordered Banco Nación to initiate the respective administrative summary to "determine the possible existence of irregularities and who could have been responsible for such a case, " sources in the case explained to Clarín.
The formal request was in fact made on January 27 for the Banco Nación to advance in the corresponding internal investigations. It was ten days ago that it was reported that administrative proceedings began, months after the PIA's request. I don't know
The PIA's request came after the criminal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita opened the investigation for alleged fraud in the credits that the management of Mauricio Macri granted to the Vicentin Group. The Office of the Attorney General is competent in those crimes and administrative irregularities that could affect the State.
About three months later, Banco Nación reported that administrative proceedings began to determine whether indeed - as the current authorities denounced - irregularities were committed in the allocation of credits to the Vicentin company, today amid controversy over the announcement of the Government to advance on its expropriation. The PIA was constituted as an accusing party in that summary
Meanwhile, in federal justice, the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita systematized the documentation on 300 credits that the cereal company would have obtained, which it had received last week.
The investigation seeks to determine how the loans from Banco Nación were granted to the business group, and whether those money deliveries fraudulently harmed the State. This case began with a complaint filed on January 30, with information prepared by one of the directors of the Nation, Claudio Lozano, who analyzed the economic situation of the Vicentin firm and the loans granted between August and December 2019 , when he publicly announced that He was in a situation of "financial stress" that would not allow him to meet his obligations.
In February, the prosecutor Pollicita charged the former head of the Banco de la Nación, Javier González Fraga, and those responsible for Vicentin, Alberto Padoan and Gustavo Nardelli for the crime of alleged fraudulent administration.
Under investigation, the company's debt to the bank is 18,500 million pesos, "which currently would be of uncertain collection since the company is in a state of default," Pollicita's indictment maintained.
After a battery of measures required by the prosecutor, last Friday, Judge Julián Ercolini ordered the lifting of banking and fiscal secrecy regarding the company from 2015 to the present, to know in detail its financial movements.
Almost simultaneously with the announcement of the expropriation, last week 73 emails and more than 300 files entered the prosecution with information provided by Banco Nación and Vicentin, which are being organized.
At the same time, the request of the Financial Information Unit (FIU) to become a plaintiff in the criminal case is still under analysis, considering that in the face of the alleged fraud maneuvers and a possible fictitious insolvency of the business group, there could be laundering maneuvers. of money .