07/23/2020 - 15:40
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Federal judge Sebastián Casanello sent the Federal Police to look for documentation on alleged irregularities in subsidies delivered this year to different film producers to the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), judicial sources confirmed to Clarín.
It is in the framework of a case for alleged irregularities in the allocation of resources, in which they investigate the film director and INCAA head Luis Puenzo and other authorities.
The investigation of the case is thin in the prosecutor Carlos Rívolo. It is an investigation that is just beginning.
On the other hand, the federal judge Ariel Lijo had requested, last month, from the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Incaa) accounting documentation referring to the period 2016-2019 in the case for which the previous administration was denounced for deviation and embezzlement of funds, the complainant associations reported.
According to the statement signed by DIC, DOCA and APRI, entities that bring together directors, documentary filmmakers and producers of Argentine independent cinema, on June 12 , Lijo ordered and issued an official letter to the Incaa "requiring him to send the accounting records generated by the institute (...) where the income of the tax collection and the expenses for the payment of subsidies to national films - established in the framework of article 29 of the Cinema Law - are found. "
In turn, in the case against ex-Inca head Ralph Haiek, ex-official Juan García Aramburu and other authorities, the judge also ordered that members and advisers who were present at the Advisory Council meetings of that time be summoned as witnesses .
The object of the criminal investigation is due to the alleged " violation of the aforementioned law (cinema law) as it regulates that a percentage stipulated in 50% of the collection obtained must be destined in order to carry out the production of films and the complaint in the case is that these funds would have been misappropriated, applying lesser amounts to the subsidies and diverting the difference to other purposes (...) ".