Alejandro Alfie
07/03/2020 - 16:22
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The former coordinator of Presidential Documentation, Susana Martinengo, asked to be released, considering her detention "null", after Judge Federico Villena was removed from the case by the Federal Chamber of La Plata. The former macrista official testified until two in the morning and denied that there was an illegal espionage plan . However, her situation was compromised, after the judge showed her evidence that incriminates her in her relationship with several detained spies of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI).
In that investigative statement, Martinengo denied having a relationship with Mauricio Macri and assured that he never received intelligence reports. According to court sources, the judge Villena showed him evidence of several cases where it appears involved, as follow - up journalist Hugo Alconada Mon The Nation . According to the material that the court has, in July 2018 Martinengo brought two intelligence agents into Casa Rosada. While one of them was meeting with the official, the one who was outside the meeting would have sent her Alconada Mon's file, called "Anaconda".
According to the documents that they showed him in the Villena court, in that file on the journalist from La Nación there would be follow-ups to his house and that of his parents, his car and his sources of information , since they were trying to detect how he obtained the information about the causes linked to the Brazilian firm Odebrecht, in one of whose episodes the head of the AFI, Gustavo Arribas, was mentioned, among other issues.
The inquiry also spoke about more than ten meetings that Martinengo had with former members of the AFI at Casa Rosada. The former official said that she had a personal relationship with three spies from the AFI and assured that the meetings she had with them at Casa Rosada were to discuss social issues, since she aspired to hold some political position in the Macrista administration. In addition, he maintained that he "never" received intelligence reports and that his professional relationship "from employee to boss" was with the former president's secretary, Darío Nieto, but not with Macri .
It was expected that this Friday his investigative statement would continue, but now the situation in Martinengo is uncertain, after the Federal Chamber of La Plata separated Judge Villena and she asked for his release. In addition, other detainees asked to be released, such as former AFI agents Facundo Melo and Jorge Sáez , who also requested the nullity of their detention, given the judge's removal from the case.
Villena also took an investigative statement from former spies Leandro Araque, Facundo Melo, Emiliano Mata, Mercedes Funes Silva and Jorge Sáez, among others. Despite the fact that the secrecy of the summary prevails, judicial sources revealed that some of the spies answered questions and pointed against the former chief of Special Operations of the AFI, Alan Ruiz, and the former director of Counterintelligence, Diego Dalmau Pereyra, as responsible for the illegal espionage operations that they carried out. Both bosses, in turn, responded directly to Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani, the former AFI holders during the administration of Mauricio Macri.
It also emerged that Leandro Araque, for example, said that he spied on the current mayor of Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi, who is one of the plaintiffs in the case brought by Judge Villena. It was also learned that Funes Silva had admitted that he spied on a van by order of Alan Ruiz , who later learned that these data were to be broadcast on the journalist Luis Majul's program, since they were putting anonymous posters against him.
Martinengo and the spies are some of the 21 people arrested for being part of an alleged illicit association that "would cover different areas of the national, provincial and local State", who violated the Intelligence Law to influence the internal life of political parties, in public opinion and "in the institutional, political, social, judicial and economic situation of the country", as stated by Chamber Judge Roberto Agustín Lemos Arias.
Of the 22 arrest warrants made by Judge Villena, the only one that could not be confirmed yet was that of former agent Martín Terra, ex-husband of Analía Maiorana, current wife of the deputy head of the Buenos Aires Government, Diego Santilli . Judicial sources assured that Terra would have been one of those who illegally spied on Santilli.
The Federal Chamber of La Plata indicated that in the judicial case there is information that indicates that the spies have carried out activities of alleged illegal espionage with "follow-ups, obtaining photographic plates", among others, "from the beginning or the middle of 2018 , on different political personalities of our country, such as the Vice President of the Nation, Dra. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Deputy Chief of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Diego César Santilli, the National Deputy Waldo Ezequiel Wolf, and the union leaders Hugo Moyano and Pablo Moyano, who, among other victims, have appeared as plaintiffs in the main cars, "chamberlain Lemos Arias said in his ruling.
