Nicolas Wiñazki
08/15/2020 - 20:55
- Clarín.com
- Politics
There are three apartments in the same building . Enough to know part of the plot of personal and money ties between the Kirchner family and two of the businessmen who multiplied their fortunes during the K presidential administrations: the builder Lázaro Báez and the leader of the Indalo group, Cristóbal López. Despite the multiple judicial investigations in corruption cases that have advanced in the courts, new developments continue to emerge from a great tangle that unite them through corporate networks and businesses . In Juncal and Uruguay streets, the rationalist-style building in which now Vice President Cristina Fernández lives stands. Two other departments, the one on the first floor and the fourth,They had been bought by Osvaldo De Sousa , one of the directors of one of Cristóbal López's companies, as well as the brother of his partner, Fabián De Sousa.
According to a court file for money laundering, these two properties were sold by De Sousa to his boss, the leader of the Indalo Group. Since the k left office, the departments of the first and fourth floors were delayed in paying the expenses between July 2017 and June 2018, and from next month until May this year. The total debt, with interest, amounted to three million eight hundred ninety-four thousand four hundred ninety pesos and eighty-three cents . Clarín agreed to the final document of the so-called "Debt Renegotiation Agreement" after a civil lawsuit initiated by the Uruguay 1306 building consortium. The departments continued to appear in the cadastral registry in the name of De Sousa, but who signed as "guarantor" and achieved a moratorium to pay what is owed is Cristóbal López . Born negotiator, he managed to close the exchange of this debt with the payment of a part of the amount and the rest with financing of eight monthly installments with an interest of three percent. This story seems complex but it is not. Why does Cristóbal López pay the debt for the expenses of two apartments that are in the name of a former employee of his who had supposedly sold those same apartments to him? The sale of those two flats that López himself admitted to having made before the Justice was not carried out in reality?
And the most obvious questions: why did a former employee of Cristóbal López buy and then supposedly sell to his boss just two properties located in the same building in which the former president, now vice president, has in La Recoleta?
The answer to this last question may be found in the corporate and business ties that united or unite Cristóbal López and the Kirchner family, and also Lázaro Báez , as already mentioned.
The two businessmen and the Kirchner family will go to trial in a court case known as "Los Sauces ·", the name of a real estate company owned by the vice president and her two children whose main clients were López and Báez. While both were winning multi-million dollar contracts granted by the State ruled by the K, both agreed to increase the fortune of the then President by renting various properties to "Los Sauces", a company that operated with a single employee, a retired gardener from El Calafate, without offices or real address.
The incredible plot of millions and millions of pesos that circulated between accounts of the Kirchners, Cristóbal López and Lázaro Báez are also united in the Uruguay building 1306 .
Cristina Fernández's apartment at that address, and also that of Osvaldo De Sousa that he had supposedly sold to Cristóbal López were raided by the Justice in the framework of the case identified as "Los Cuadernos de las Bribes". It so happens that several witnesses reported that the bags with money from the alleged illegal collection of bribes during the Kirchner presidencies were taken to that building. The doorman himself admitted to the Justice that he himself saw movements of cars and the transfer of purses and bags that entered and left his workplace.
In those raids, the Justice found documentation in one of the flats that De Sousa had bought and that it was believed had sold to López, in which it was indicated that the payment of the expenses and other procedures for the three "K" flats did the same person: Osvaldo "Bochi" Sanfelice . He is a former partner of the current deputy Máximo Kirchner, manager of the real estate "Los Sauces", and at the same time an employee of a Cristóbal López company.
The three enigmatic floors of Uruguay 1306 were already joined by the same "administrator".
Sanfelice is today prosecuted for money laundering along with Cristóbal López and his partner Fabián De Sousa, for maneuvers linked to another satellite company of the multiple and diverse businesses that always revolved thanks to the Kirchner sun. That business partnership is called "Agosto".
Sanfelice was one of Nestor Kirchner's best friends.
She used to visit him every night at the Quinta de Olivos, according to the records of entry and exit from the presidential residence.
And he was also marked by several "repentant" witnesses in the "Cuadernos de las Coimas" case as one of the few trusted men of former President Kirchner who received the bags with cash money that, also according to those witnesses and others, they were kept in the departments of Uruguay 1306.
Who is the true owner of those two floors that, now it is known, owed expenses of almost four million pesos that the businessman López will pay as "guarantor"?
According to an investigation by former deputy Margarita Stolbizer and her lawyer, Silvina Martínez, it was Sanfelice who bought in "commission" at least one of the two apartments in Uruguay in 1306 when the Kirchners were already living on the fifth floor of that building. In "commission" it means that you did not specify who would be the real owner of the property. Then it was registered in the City's cadastre in the name of Osvaldo De Sousa. That, although Cristóbal López admitted that he would have bought his employee one of those same apartments neighboring Cristina Fernández's.
Stolbizer and Martínez were the complainants of two of the most emblematic K corruption causes, "Hotesur" and "Los Sauces".
Dr. Martínez explained her hypothesis to Clarín: "· Cristóbal López is being tried in five cases in the Justice. In all he is seized by millionaire figures. Now the name of Osvaldo De Sousa is being used to avoid legal measures affecting him." Martínez suspects that Sanfelice and De Sousa could have implemented a potential "prestanombres" maneuver to buy and sell apartments that actually had more powerful owners.
The history of the Kirchners and the Uruguay Building 1306 includes more suggestive silver labyrinths.
During 2007 and until 2011, the fifth floor, Cristina Fernández's house, appeared as rented to the flagship company of the Lázaro Báez group, called Austral Construcciones . At that time no one lived in that house.
But later, and until the end of 2015, the Kirchner house was rented out to a tenant who did live there. His name is Mauro Sánchez and he was a director of the Indalo Group, owned by Cristóbal López . Who paid was one of the companies of that holding, not the tenant.
Mr. Sánchez moved, but with an apartment, not a building.
Once De Sousa bought another apartment through the Kirchner real estate agent, Sanfelice, he went from living to one of those properties.
Did de Sousa never occupy them?
Justice proved that the other department was occupied by Oscar Leiva. Who is Leiva?
Another attorney for Cristina Kirchner's companies.
Leiva and Sanfelice are brothers-in-law.
Attention: Clarín learned that López has not yet taken over a debt that one of the floors of Uruguay 1306 maintains with the Aysa water company. It is forty thousand pesos.
Three floors unite the Kirchners, Báez and Cristóbal López with remarkable stories.
In the same building. In Buenos Aires city. Where the last census recorded that there were seven hundred eighty-eight thousand seven hundred ninety-one thousand departments. They are census data. It was held on October 27, 2010. The day Nestor Kirchner died.