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The fortune of the former secretary of Cristina Kirchner grew more than 15 times in eight years and the Justice was investigating him

2020-07-05T06:47:06.282Z


Fabián Gutiérrez had an open cause in Comodoro Py for illicit enrichment and money laundering during the K governments. His death will leave the files unfinished.


Lucia Salinas

07/04/2020 - 16:44

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

Fabián Gutiérrez was found dead in a cabin in El Calafate. Judge Carlos Narvarte investigates his murder: he was buried, dressed and with a blow to the head. In Comodoro Py, an investigation was pending regarding the fortune he amassed in recent years.

According to the Financial Information Unit (FIU), a compromising report was brought to Justice about the former private secretary of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. According to the anti-laundering agency, from 2007 to 2015, its assets grew more than 15 times. The “suspicious” financial movements were the subject of 23 simultaneous raids in the south, years ago. 

In recent years, Gutiérrez settled in El Calafate, where his ventures grew and he acquired several properties. His economic movements raised suspicions in the FIU, which denounced him for illicit enrichment and laundering before Judge Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi.

The complaint suspected his assets: "Whoever was Cristina Kirchner's secretary would have acquired assets of great economic importance, having detected irregularities that would compromise the agreement with his formal income ," the record shows.

It is not the first time that Gutiérrez's assets have raised suspicions in the courts. In 2009, he was charged in a case of illicit enrichment in relation to a house built in El Calafate, but was later dismissed.

But in this latest report, a series of irregularities had been detected in their sworn statements, many of them certified by the accountant Víctor Manzanares , imprisoned a month ago in the Los Sauces case. "In 2015, he declared receiving income from fees and rents for 52,000 pesos per month, which later did not appear in the affidavit."

Gutiérrez had said that he received 150,000 pesos from the Contru Sec firm in advance of fees, without having been overturned in his statement. Neither did he declare, according to the FIU, his income from the management of the Hotel Comercio in Río Gallegos, owing the tax declaration of the same in 2015, for 585,000 pesos .

Former Secretary K was linked to a conglomerate of firms: Patagonia Gourmet SA, Contruc-Sec SA, CYD Servicios, Tierra Austral, Patagonia Landscape SA, Komprometidos SA (where he served as manager). This firm published “La Revista K”, which it was distributed in the concentrations and other political areas ”, indicates the complaint.

Machines SA also joined the society network. The FIU hypothesized that the real owner was Gutiérrez and that he used a "figurehead" to appear as the owner.

The cause focused on the growth of Gutiérrez's assets. At this point, it was stated that the declarations of 2012, 2013 and 2014 were rectified (modified), some more than once.

The numbers were superlative: the patrimony in 2015 "represents more than 15 times its patrimony of the year 2007 (15.27%, which arises from the relationship between 4,155,358.64 and 272,102.94 pesos)", the complaint states.

The Justice investigated the income of "great magnitude for the sale of real estate and for the sale of vehicles", and that in several years "far exceed the income for its activity".

The assets declared in the country then had a value of 8,549,514 pesos . This includes properties for 2.4 million pesos. From 2007 to July 2016, it incorporated 16 properties.

The report held the following: "There are doubts about the value of the properties, without being able to rule out the use of figureheads to disguise the patrimony, or undervalued purchase prices in relation to high sale values ​​that would configure a typical money laundering maneuver" .

For example, he sold his land for 200,000 pesos, "with a profit of almost 1,900% in pesos." In turn, Gutiérrez declared during this period a donation from her mother for 750,000 pesos that was “suspicious” for the FIU.

The property, built on a 1,462.60 m2 lot in El Calafate , was donated to the children of his sister (also investigated in this case), who is also director of Patagonia Landscape SA, of which Gutiérrez is a shareholder. "She could be acting as a figurehead," judicial sources said.

In 2015, the house was declared with a value of 682,530 pesos, and was denounced for having an estimated cost of 300 to 500 thousand dollars.

Likewise, it was observed that in 2012 Gutiérrez bought a house in Río Gallegos for 200,000 pesos from one of the directors of the Hotel Comercio (owned by him) and twelve months later he managed to sell it for 800,000 pesos: a 300% profit.

Among the real estate operations under suspicion is also mentioned the swap he made by delivering a local in El Calafate (which he bought for 250,000) for a department in San Cristóbal of 200,000 pesos, "undervaluing the property," sources of the cause said.

Debts exceeding 4 million pesos, according to ex-secretary K, are another point of suspicion of a laundering maneuver . "The amounts and the modalities of payment or the lack of payment, would indicate that they were only used to" draw "the used cash that could not have been justified with legal income."

Source: clarin

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