02/14/2021 17:06
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/14/2021 17:06
Among the many eccentricities that former president Carlos Saúl Menem starred in during the decade he governed, one of the most remembered was the possession of a Ferrari with which, among other things, he
drove to Pinamar without paying tolls and almost 200 kilometers per hour
.
"
It's mine, mine, mine
."
That was the phrase Menem used to defend what became the most famous Ferrari in the country, a
1991 348 TB
, the result of a gift from the Italian businessman
Massimo Del Lago
.
Despite his devotion to the vehicle, accepting that gift generated so much controversy that he had to sell it and donate the money.
Gifts to public officials were in the spotlight from then on, and months later Law 25,188 was enacted, which regulates "Ethics in the exercise of public functions", to which many attribute the kickoff to that fact.
Carlos Menem in the fifth of Olivos with the red Ferrari.
File photo / Hugo Arias.
In its article 18 it indicates that "public officials may not receive gifts, gifts or donations, whether of things, services or goods, on the occasion or on the occasion of the performance of their functions."
Shortly after, the Ferrari went to public auction and changed hands until it fell to the Stockbroker,
Juan Napoli
.
According to an investigation by the newspaper
La Nación
, after several handshakes, in 2015 the car reached
Aldo and Dahian Rocchini
, owners of a business advisory company and a gas distributor.
The last heard of her was that she is in her possession.
So we wait for dad at home with his cake ❤️ @ CarlosMenem_LR pic.twitter.com/M114TbNeCm
- zulema menem (@zulemitamenem) July 4, 2020
This "Feyari" model, as it was baptized jokingly about how the Riojan named it with his tune, accelerates from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 5.4 seconds and reaches 275 kilometers per hour.
It is a unique car of which only 8,000 exclusive vehicles were made.
The former president loved that car so much that last year, on his 90th birthday, his daughter
Zulemita
posed with a photo in which the cake alluded to the Ferrari and the former president, when not, with a sign that said "
Anillaco
".
AFG
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