A notebook of the main accused of the crime shows how Fabián Gutiérrez was followed for the money he had laundered from corruption

Lucia Salinas

07/20/2020 - 15:31

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The plan to assassinate Fabián Gutiérrez started with a notebook. The news of an accusation against the former secretary of Cristina Kirchner linked to the cause of the bribery notebooks was captured. It was a prosecution of Judge Claudio Bonadio, where he pointed out that the money he had and the assets that made up the assets of the former secretary of Cristina Kirchner, were the product of a crime, of corruption. The notebook had paragraphs taken from a note in the newspaper Ámbito Financiero whose title spoke of the prosecution. Then, a step by step of how to execute the plan to take a portion of that money from Gutiérrez. Everything is related in the prosecution signed by Judge Carlos Narvarte.

" They looked for impunity in the crime of robbery, given that the victim would have recognized them at some point when they managed to let go when they were tortured inside the house, as would have been recognized by two of the participants in the act," said the magistrate. the weekend prosecuted Facundo Zaeta, Facundo Gómez Chávez and Pedro Monzón for double aggravated homicide. The author of the crime, the judge maintained, was the 19-year-old, and the other two contributed to the plan.

In the raid on Facundo Zaeta's house - in whose yard they found the body of Fabián Gutiérrez on July 4 in the morning - they  found a notebook that was revealing for the cause.

Fabián Gutiérrez had been there for more than 24 hours, according to investigators' estimates, in a shallow well under a tree, with marked signs of violence, cuts produced by a knife . The murder would have been committed on Thursday night: between 9:00 p.m. and midnight. All those hours were marked by torture. The reason? Theft for economic purposes.

In the notebook found by the judge there were annotations that made reference to the “crime that they intended to perpetrate”. On one page were written the names of the victim and two other characters who were investigated with him in the case of the bribery notebooks, where a structure for collecting bribes from contracting state contractors was unraveled. A section of that case was dealt with by the former private secretaries of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. Judge Claudio Bonadio had maintained that Daniel Muñoz and Fabián Gutiérrez, due to their proximity to the former presidents, had been members of a circuit responsible for transferring part of those funds to the south.

In those notes that Zaeta had, the name of "The victim and two other characters who were linked to the cause of illicit enrichment in which Fabián Gutiérrez was involved . " There was something else: a figure of money registered in those pages, "which I would believe was what they expected to find in the house," said Judge Narvarte.

When he had it in his possession, the magistrate ordered to analyze that notebook, one of a "study" softcover, and asked that everything written by Zaeta be written down. "The search for information about all the people I mentioned there," was the first order.

Facundo Zaeta had kept there a note from the Ámbito Financiero newspaper titled: "Cristina's former secretary was prosecuted for money laundering . " When the researchers saw that material, they found that the 19-year-old had "copied verbatim fragments of that note" on those sheets.

In that notebook that was in Zaeta's house, there were parts highlighted and copied verbatim, such as: "money coming from the illicit perpetrated by that illicit association that was received by Daniel Muñoz and Fabián Gutiérrez". This is the organization that, according to federal justice, "Cristina Kirchner commanded."

The judge determined that Facundo, prosecuted as the author of a double aggravated homicide, “ would have dedicated himself to obtaining more information from Gutiérrez, and that for this reason he began the exchange of messages showing interest in the victim; figuring in their heads that Gutiérrez would have in his possession all that money that was talked about in the news. ”

The journalistic note refers to the prosecution of Judge Claudio Bonadio of November 2019. There it was explained that Fabián Gutiérrez, like his mother and sister, “had no way to justify the assets” that he owned : 36 properties, 30 vehicles, two boats. They seized an embargo of 900 million pesos . Last week, the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber confirmed the accusations and asked that the Justice seize all the assets,  which were acquired with illicit money.

Based on the testimonies taken, the documentary evidence and the statements of the accused, Judge Narvarte confirmed this motive and expanded: Zaeta and his accomplices tried to "access the house in order to seize the money that they believed was somewhere in that house".

In the resolution, the magistrate indicated that "from the point of view of the accused, through torture methods, they sought that he give them sums of money that they believed Gutiérrez kept somewhere."

So, there were no doubts for the judge about "the expectation of the robbery " in which "everyone participated in the act", in order to extract money that they had read in the news that was produced by an illicit, silver in black. “Facundo Zaeta approached Gutiérrez with the sole purpose of seducing him and later, together with Gómez and Monzón, perpetrate the crime of robbery. Death would have occurred at his home. where he was on an intimate date with Zaeta and who later allowed the co-authors to enter the house. ” Hours later, after the “torture perpetrated”, the beatings, the questions without favorable answers for the three young people, ended the life of the former private secretary of Cristina Kirchner.