A firm linked to Cristóbal López is about to stay with OCA

Lucia Salinas

11/20/2020 5:14 PM

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 11/20/2020 5:48 PM

Grupo Clear made a deposit of 448 million pesos as an advance to buy the assets of OCA SA, the firm whose bankruptcy was decreed in April 2019. The offer was accepted by the civil and commercial justice on October 29.

As president of the two firms that make up the Group, the notification was made by Juan

, who assumed this position when Cristóbal López resigned on November 21, 2017.

were incorporated in Chubut, and their boards of directors They were integrated by the sons of businessman K, while he was the presidency of the companies.

The two main references that Grupo Clear has today also formed various partnerships with López.

In April 2019, the civil and commercial judge of Lomas de Zamora Pablo Tejada 

, of which most are unpaid commitments with the AFIP.

With this judicial measure,

ceased to be the owner of the largest private mail in the country.

At the time, the bankruptcy was determined with continuity of the commercial activity of the post office, which allowed to maintain the sources of work and pay the salaries for four or five months, "while the process that leads to the auction of the company lasts."

Finally, progress was made in the sale of the company's assets, in order with those funds to face the payment of creditors.

The Justice exhausted all the instances to avoid the bankruptcy of the mail linked to

, since he asked the opinion of the creditors on the three proposals received in the "rescue", but none showed solidity to repay the debt.

Proposals were received from OCA Logística and Seprit, both linked to Farcuh;

and the Los Cedros cooperative, led by Daniel Palladino, head of the union of hierarchical employees of OCA (AECPRA).

But none satisfied the bankruptcy judge.

But

and as an advance they deposited 440,880,000 pesos.

The holding is made up of Clear Petroleum and Clear Urbana, on whose boards and members were 

Clear SRL began operating in 2007, while continuing to operate as a public limited company.

In that year Cristóbal López - who did not have legal proceedings or the millionaire embargoes that he faces today - acquired 15 shares of the firm's capital from Juan Suazo Padilla.

Suazo Padilla was already a partner of Alberto Destefanis, another key man in history.

Initially dedicated to the collection of urban waste, the company acquired important contracts with the municipality of Comodoro Rivadavia and with some towns in the north of the province of Santa Cruz.

But

with these firms involved in the purchase of OCA as its members.

Towards 2011, López transferred to Juan Ignacio González Pedroso the 15 installments that had a nominal value of one peso.

But not for this, he completely separated himself from the partners of the firm and its governing body.

For example, Clear SA ended up becoming

, which by 2016 was chaired by Cristóbal Nazareno López, the eldest of the businessman K.'s sons, González Pedroso and Destefanis accompanied him.

The youngest of López's children, Emiliano, was named to the board.

With corruption cases advancing in Comodoro Py against the owner of Grupo Indalo, his two sons resigned from the board of directors of Clear Petroleum and of all the companies in which they had been appointed: more than thirty according to official records.

Since then, González Pedroso assumed the presidency and Destefanis seconded him in office:

It was precisely at the end of 2017 when López was arrested for the first time along with Fabián De Sousa,

for not paying the

tax

with the oil company

: the macrista AFIP claimed him with interest and penalties

The case is in full oral trial.

The other firm interested in OCA is Clear Urbana SA.

In 2013 Clear SRL was spun off and was made up of the two sons of Cristóbal López and the reiterated names: Juan Ignacio González Pedroso and Alberto Destefanis, among others.

Both Cristóbal Nazareno and Emiliano in 2016 were in charge of the company, until they resigned in November 2017.

Thus, since then the Clear Group remained in the hands of two historical partners of López.

The current president of the firm shared four directories of various firms with businessman K:

(2014),

(2013),

with his children and

under the same conditions.

On the other hand, Destefanis in 2012 was a member of the board of

, a firm that was also a member of López's ex-wife.

They also shared the formation of

a hotel business.

Everything, in addition to integrating the Clear SRL boards of directors until it became the Clear Group.

These partners that make up the Clear Group are the ones who deposited 440,880,000 pesos in an account of the Banco Provincia de Buenos Aires, within the framework of the OCA bankruptcy and under the gaze of commercial justice.

The letter to which

accessed

 details that they are

at an official dollar rate - outdated - of $ 83.50.

The deposit made is

, within the framework of the bankruptcy of the postal firm.

OCA is the largest private mail service in the country and has 6,800 direct employees, of which

.

It is the company with the largest number of members of the Hugo Moyano union, an organization that paid part of the salary of its employees during several months of 2016, a period in which Moyano took control of the company by force.

In the last year its debt with the AFIP increased exponentially.

At the end of 2017 he owed 3,400 million pesos.

In mid-2018, the debt grew to 5,000 million.

The Justice lifted the embargoes so that he can pay those debts, but at the end of the year he already owed 5,850 million.

In this context, the judge closed the bankruptcy and opened a process of "cram down or salvage", which now failed, resulting in the bankruptcy of the company.