Bernardo Vazquez
02/08/2021 9:42 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/08/2021 9:42 AM
Mauricio Macri
is memorable.
They have close to him that he remembers each successful date in his stage as president of Boca, that he is clear about when was each milestone in his cycle as head of the Buenos Aires government and that he knows what happened each day in his four years as President of the Nation.
He also remembers that his last
birthdays
always coincided with some
bad news related to judicial files
that directly or indirectly involve him.
It seems that his celebration of 62 years,
this Monday, will not be the exception
, according to information from front-line sources who spoke with
Clarín
.
The Justice has prepared
two decisions related to cases in which the name of the former president appears,
which will be communicated during the week.
And more than one Macri ally agrees that he expects a
"judicial attack"
in the next few hours, which reinforces what they define as an "attack" against the former president and former officials of his government in recent weeks.
Sources consulted by this means assure that the decisions will come from the orbit of the
Dajudeco (Directorate of Judicial Assistance in Complex Crimes and Organized Crime)
that, on the one hand, will define the amount of the
real debt between Correo Argentino SA
, company of which the Macri family is a shareholder, and the national state.
That decision, not confirmed by judicial sources, would be
between this Monday and Tuesday
.
On the other hand, it
is expected that the body that is in charge of judicial wiretapping
and that depends on the Supreme Court, will
enable access to the calls that were made from the Presidency in the period from 2016 to 2018
, when Macri was president.
Nor was it officially confirmed from the Courts.
As Clarín published, the claim arises from
Carlos Beraldi, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's lawyer and Fabián de Sousa,
Cristóbal López's partner, who await a decision from Chamber III of the Criminal Cassation Chamber, after the defense of Macri will present appeals against the decision of the judge of first instance María Servini de Cubría to enable the telephone crossover.
In this case
, alleged pressure from the Macri government to the Justice for the opening of files for tax evasion to the Indalo Group
, of De Sousa and Cristóbal López,
are investigated
.
One of the complaints is against Oil Combustibles for a fraud of $ 8,000 million to the detriment of the AFIP.
Close to Macri they do not understand how from the environment of businessman K they link judicial decisions in cases that involve him with his term as President.
They consider that it is a great armed attack against the former head of state, a "judicial attack"
, citing recent complaints by Rodolfo Tailhade, deputy of the Frente de Todos, against Macri for the creation of his Foundation, and against those who worked close to him in his government, like the deputy Fernando Iglesias, in addition to Fernando De Andreis, former secretary general of the Presidency, and Fátima Micheo, former assistant secretary of communication.
All, according to macrismo, "without any kind of support."
Macri is
currently
in Qatar
,
as part of FIFA
, in the Club World Cup that is taking place in that country, which will also host the 2022 World Cup. He traveled last Friday,
will spend his birthday there
and will return the next week.
The debt of Correo Argentino SA
In what has to do with
Correo Argentino SA, the Justice will announce what is the real debt status of the company
, which is in the process of bankruptcy and is part of the Socma group.
of the Macri family.
Unlike the case of telephone calls,
there is expectation in part of Macri's environment about an endorsement of the presentation they made at the time
and a calculation that places the company's real debt between $ 500 and $ 650 million, and not in the almost $ 5000 million that the prosecutor Gabriela Boquín raised.
But
there are also doubts about what they understand could be part of a new chapter in the onslaught
against the former president.
"They can hole it up," say sources close to the company.
And they remember that since 2017 and
in the last four years, coincidentally on the date of Macri's birthday, there were judicial decisions contrary to Correo Argentino
SA.
Of the first, they even mention, they found out earlier through a tweet from Cristina Kirchner, and not from the prosecutor.
When Correo Argentino was privatized in 1997, the 30-year concession was in the hands of a consortium made up of Socma (67%) and minority partners.
But the
private mail did not pay the canon
, and the
debt with the State grew until, in 2001, it reached $ 296 million
and entered bankruptcy.
In 2003, the Post was nationalized by then-President Néstor Kirchner.
A root of the debt of Socma a legal case was initiated for the original balance of $ 296 million plus interest as an update.
In turn,
the former owners of the Post Office presented three main claims against the State for $ 1,700 million, another $ 500 million and for US $ 120 million
, plus interest, to compensate for alleged investments made.
In June 2016, when Mauricio Macri was already in the Casa Rosada, the Government and the company reached a payment agreement
, according to which the Macri group had to
pay $ 300 million
in 15 years, with an interest rate of 7% .
Prosecutor Boquín rejected this proposal as "ruinous, abusive" and whose "irregular acceptance" seriously harmed the patrimony of the national State.
The agreement was never approved, and the payment was not made.
The recalculation then made by the
Attorney General's Office placed the debt indexed at that date at $ 4,700 million
, but extended until 2033 (date on which the Post Office would finalize the payment according to its proposal), was above $ 70,000 millions.
The calculation they make in the defense of Socma is in complete contrast
.
And those close to the company assure that if the credit of the National State against Correo Argentino SA were updated to 6/28/2016, date of the improvement of the Bankruptcy proposal, due to the punitive rate established in the postal service award contract,
" the amount amounting to $ 528,800,216
, which implies that the proposal established the payment of 56% of the updated debt, 30 times more than the 1.89% imposed by the prosecutor Gabriela Boquín ".
They add, in a text accessed by
Clarín
, that "the contractual rate was the one used by the National State itself at the time of verifying its credit. Said rate and criteria used by the National State was received and approved by the verifying Receivership and later by the bankruptcy judge, thus becoming a res judicata. Neither the State administration that appeared to verify in 2002 nor any subsequent administration to date questioned or challenged this criterion. "
And they add: "If instead of using the contractual rate the credit of the National State were updated
by the passive rate
of the National
Bank
, a rate usually used in legal situations with the State, the updated amount on the date of the bankruptcy proposal would amount to
$ 651,321,558
. In other words, in this hypothesis the bankruptcy proposal represented the payment of a figure 23 times higher than that referred by the prosecutor. "
Socma's order against Boquín and Zannini
During the last week the
Socma group released a request to the Justice that Clarín published
and in which, precisely, the actions of the prosecutor Boquín, an ally of the former attorney Alejandra Gils Carbó and part of the Kirchnerist group Justicia Legítima are compared , in the preventive processes of Correo Argentino and Oil Combustibles, Cristóbal López's company.
They denounced that Boquín proceeded differently depending on the case, bordering on "suspicion"
and asked the Commercial Justice to investigate her and the Treasury Attorney
Carlos Zannini
for alleged partiality
.
In Socma they relativize Macri's interference in the company, from which they claim he left 20 years ago, while claiming to be
convinced of the "intention of the Government to make it disappear
.
"
