Lucia Salinas
10/08/2020 11:58 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/08/2020 11:58
When Judge Julián Ercolini sent Cristina, Máximo and Florencia Kirchner to trial for money laundering through the hotel sector, he
ordered that a section of the operations that involved other actors be investigated:
Osvaldo Sanfelice, owner of Idea SA la last company that managed the hotels of the Kirchner family, and
Cristóbal López owner of the Los Notros inn and the El Retorno hotel.
Regarding this group of firms and others such as Oil Combustibles (the oil company that owes the treasury $ 8,000 million), the court ordered the lifting of fiscal secrecy:
the route of money that would have been derived to Hotesur SA is being investigated.
Lázaro Báez managed three of the four Kirchner family hotels until July 2013. Then, the case known as the Route of Money K had exploded, the same one in which the justice corroborated that the Patagonian businessman had laundered 60 million dollars between 2010 and 2013. The former President decided not to renew the management and exploitation contract of Hotesur SA (owner of the Alto Calafate hotel), Las Dunas and La Aldea de El Chaltén.
Some time later, another judge determined that with the tourist complexes, $ 80 million were laundered.
The management of the hotels was in the hands of Osvaldo Sanfelice
-ex-partner of Máximo Kirchner in the real estate-, through the company IDEA SA.
It was intervened for various irregularities.
For example, Hotesur claims rental and royalty debts that were not paid: the figure rises to $ 3,406,854.
The TOF 5 -which must carry out the trial for the Hotesur SA case-, decided to extend the intervention of the hotel manager, until the numbers are clarified and the debts are settled.
The values that surround Idea SA are disproportionate for the controller who, according to the calculation he made, the lease contract -before both companies were intervened-, was set at
an annual income of $ 70,000
, since according to the inquiries made it was estimated that the value of the property plus its fixed assets "were hardly less than 8 million dollars."
Along with these location issues, the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita
deepened the investigation regarding the origin of the funds received by the firm IDEA SA
For the prosecutor Pollicita there is a circuit of funds that were the ones that finally "swelled the assets of the former presidents Kirchner" , as it maintained in one of its opinions.
On this occasion, the movement of money under investigation includes Cristóbal López.
"From the evidence collected so far, different operations have been detected from the company OIL COMBUSTIBLES SA, which was the beneficiary of the fraud against the National State through the tax on liquid fuels - to other related firms, INVERSORA M&S SA, LOS NOTROS SA, CPC SA, ALCALIS DE LA PATAGONIA SA, OIL M&S SA, HOSTERÍA EL RETORNO SA and AGOSTO SA which, ultimately, would have channeled money in favor of IDEA SA and Osvaldo José SANFELICE ", maintains the opinion that Clarín agreed to.
In this case, there is another piece of information: Cristóbal López and Sanfelice are prosecuted for money laundering, since Agosto SA received from businessman K more than $ 39 million, which came - the accusation maintains - from "illicit profits obtained by the Indalo Group" .
Later, “a mechanism was developed to recycle a portion of these illicit profits”: the money first circulated in the Indalo group as “loans” and then Agosto SA was hired.
This movement of funds, for the prosecution, was part of a larger structure that is the one tracked in this case which includes Idea SA and the Cristóbal López hotels, since they shared employees and cross-billing with Hotesur, owned by the Kirchner.
Consequently, now the Pollicita prosecutor's office seeks to establish the circuit of funds that "would eventually lead to Hotesur's accounts in order to benefit the Kirchner family's assets with illicit funds," judicial sources explained to
Clarín.
To obtain more details of how the money was circulating, under what justifications and to determine if the origin of the money was spurious, the prosecution required the fiscal lifting of Cristóbal López's companies, such as those owned by Sanfelice, for the 2013 fiscal period - 2017.
As Judge Julián Ercolini had already ordered the lifting of the fiscal and / or banking secrecy of some of the individuals and legal entities investigated, the prosecution requested to extend said measure, "with the purpose of deepening the investigation" and therefore requested the lifting of Oil Combustibles (in bankruptcy), Los Notros SA, Inversora M&S, Hostería El Retorno.
Also from Agostos SA and on its owner, Osvaldo Sanfelice.