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Gutiérrez's death, unpunished corruption and the economic crisis

2020-07-07T22:58:51.577Z


The most developed countries are the most honest societies. Here, the cause of the Notebooks, the largest exhibition of corruption K, has no trial date. The murder of Cristina Kirchner's former secretary rescued her from oblivion.


07/06/2020 - 17:37

  • Clarín.com
  • Opinion

Discussed by some, the relationship between poverty and corruption seems obscene and obvious, if you compare the 10 least corrupt countries (according to the index that Transparency International has produced since 1995) with the 10 countries with the highest human development (carried out by the United Nations). The first case includes Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany. In the second, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Iceland, Hong Kong, Sweden, Singapore and the Netherlands. In other words, the countries with the best lives are, not coincidentally, those with less corruption. The correspondence between "developed country" and "honest society" is evident. Argentina appears in position 69 for corruption and 45 for human development, in both cases out of a total of 180 countries. A relatively mediocre score. And everything invites us to think that it will be difficult for us to improve these indicators.

Just look at the biggest cause of corruption in history, that of the Cuadernos de las Coimas, had practically been forgotten until the murder of Fabián Gutiérrez this weekend in El Calafate brought it back to the titles. The former secretary of Cristina Kirchner, who had also been investigated for getting rich and fast , and whose ostentation may have been what aroused the greed of his murderers, had detailed in that file the movement of bags with illegal silver and pointed to the other K marriage secretary, Daniel Muñoz, who died in 2016, who went on to buy properties abroad for more than 70 million dollars .

For those who had managed to forget it, the cause, started on August 1, 2018 after an investigation started by journalists from La Nación , occupied national attention for months. In charge of the late judge Claudio Bonadio and the prosecutor Claudio Stornelli, he revealed the mechanism by which dozens of the most important businessmen in the country had paid millions and millions in bribes to a group of officials whose organizer, for the judicial investigation, was the then Chairwoman. The current Vice was prosecuted as the head of the illegal association and co-author of 27 acts of "passive bribery." The confessions of one and the other piled up. The arrests and raids multiplied. It was the most forceful exhibition of how corruption worked in Argentina. 

The file is now in Federal Oral Court No. 7, composed of judges Enrique Méndez Signori, Fernando Canero and Germán Andrés Castelli. The federal prosecutor Fabiana León is in charge of the accusation. Still not a start date was set for the trial oral and public. In truth, no one is encouraged to bet that the date is established within a reasonable period (the equivalent of the time that the Front of All is in power being reasonable). Two years went by. And nothing happened.

That of the Notebooks is only one of the unpunished causes of corruption K, the most emblematic, the most "rude", in some sense. In the same limbo are, for example, those of Hotesur and Los Sauces, two causes unified by their similarity, where Cristina and her children Máximo and Florencia, among others, are accused of laundering money with their hotels and properties in the South. .

Corruption with impunity and therefore endemic is the most unknown reason for the Creole economic debacle, which is completed by other well-known ills: inflation, fiscal deficit, unpayable debt and various other etceteras. 

When one does not have savings or the possibility of obtaining a loan, as is the case in Argentina, almost the only thing left to raise the dead is to convince someone to invest in our business. Now, who would put money in a company in which their staff members are accused of having stolen part of the income?

Source: clarin

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