Lucia Salinas
10/06/2020 - 13:15
Clarín.com
Politics
Federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti was bypassed to decide
whether to open the investigation against Máximo Kirchner
, who was denounced for alleged illicit enrichment and falsification of a public document, as a result of the fact that in her last sworn statement she recorded having assets of 292 million pesos.
The same magistrate - in charge of the court that belonged to Norberto Oyarbide - also has yet to decide whether to reopen the investigation against Cristina Kirchner for alleged illicit enrichment.
The assets of the Kirchner family are once again under investigation.
On the one hand, the increase in her wealth that the former President had during her years in front of the Casa Rosada, and now for the same reason with respect to her son Máximo.
Both files are in the hands of the same magistrate, but in two different courts.
María Eugenia Capuchetti was sworn in in May 2019 as the head of Federal Court 5 that belonged to Norberto Oyarbide, where the controversial file for the assets of the former President had been processed, closed by that judge in record time and in the midst of complaints.
That controversy caused a complaint for its reopening, which Capuchetti now has in her hands to decide on it.
In turn, in court 6 - whose head was the now retired judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral - the complaint will be investigated for alleged inconsistencies in the sworn statement of Máximo Kirchner.
46-year-old María Eugenia Capuchetti is the
daughter of the historic AFA security chief, Carlos Capuchetti.
Those old family roots in the world of football and justice - in whose different offices she reported for two decades -
linked her with Daniel Angelici
, who is recognized as one of her references.
But the "godfather" closest to the new federal judge is the one who for a few weeks was not also her colleague, the now judge of the Buenos Aires Supreme Court
Sergio Torres
.
He worked with him when he was in charge of investigating court 24, and accompanied him to Comodoro Py in 2001, when President
Fernando de la Rúa
made him a federal judge.
Later, Capuchetti went to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the City, under the baton of another godson of Angelici, the attorney
Martín Ocampo
.
His last position before the contest that ended up depositing him in the Buenos Aires federal court 5 was that of head of the Office of Liaison with Official Bodies of that body.
Last week, Capuchetti was drawn to subrogate for one year court 6 that Rodolfo Canicoba Corral left vacant after retiring.
At the head of that office, she must now decide whether to open the investigation into the fortune of Máximo Kirchner.
Her latest affidavit states that she owns 292 million pesos, distributed in 27 properties (25 of which were inheritance), two vehicles, 3 million dollars and shares in three companies.
The lawyer Silvina Martínez maintains that depending on the valuation of the family businesses, intervened after being suspected of their use for money laundering maneuvers,
the assets of the national deputy would amount to 25 million dollars
, due to the price of the properties they belong to. to the companies that he owns in equal parts with his sister Florencia Kirchner.
CFK's heritage
It was in Court 5 -when Oyarbide was the incumbent-, for only six months the case for illicit enrichment against Néstor and Cristina Kirchner was open.
The case was closed with the dismissal of both, after
a murky accounting expertise
in which the then accountant of the former presidents participated in the case.
The Kirchners were being investigated because, according to their own affidavits of assets,
their assets had increased 158% in one year
.
Between 2007 and 2008, they went from having assets, cash and companies for 17.8 million pesos to accumulating 46 million pesos. The discussion on how he investigated that file was reopened within the framework of the cause of the bribery notebooks, when
Oyarbide admitted that he acted under pressure from former presidents
;
the former director of the SIDE, Antonio Stiuso, and the judicial operator K Javier Fernández.
To these statements
was later added the confession of the former Kirchner accountant, Víctor Manzanares
, who said that Néstor asked him to take charge of “managing his accounting expertise” and that he sent him to the SIDE, where he met with Fernández and from where they took him to Oyarbide's house, who asked him to describe Kirchner's economic facts that he had known since the 1990s.
At the time, the expert Eduardo Blanco Álvarez, former auditor of the Office of the Administrative Investigations Prosecutor, prepared a report on the inconsistencies that he detected in the Kirchner assets,
but it was never incorporated into the file
that Oyarbide instructed.
He said that of the 28 million pesos that the Kirchners' assets had grown between 2007 and 2008,
some 24.7 million were impossible to justify.
In December 2009, with the dollar at $ 3.81, that figure amounted to almost $ 6.5 million.
The former Kirchner accountant confessed that during 2008 Néstor Kirchner had sold approximately 13 properties that were transferred to Austral Construcciones - Lázaro Báez's company - and Rudy Ulloa, and not all the deeds were available, some were simple copies ”.
