02/14/2021 7:34 PM
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Updated 02/14/2021 7:34 PM
Investigated at the time for the payment of bonuses to government officials - he was convicted - for the sale of the Palermo property to the Rural Society and for the alleged omission of bank accounts in Switzerland, among other causes that he faced in the last two decades , the late former president Carlos Menem recognized a net worth of only
$ 7.5 million
, according to the latest affidavit filed as a senator with the Anti-Corruption Office.
In this sense, he is the least wealthy of the former presidents with whom the upper house shared until these days.
At least in the blank and declared numbers.
In her last presentation before the OA, Cristina Kirchner declared, for example, an equity of $ 9.7 million, while Senator Adolfo Rodríguez Saá -president for a week- did the same with almost $ 20 million.
In the last rendering of accounts made before the Anticorruption Office, corresponding to the 2019 financial year, Menem's accountants declared
26 lots in Chilecito, La Rioja
, of only one square meter each, which entered their patrimony in April 1978 and were valued between $ 700 and just over $ 347,000, depending on the tax value of each one, which the former president declares as the owner of 50%.
They are lands, according to La Nación published in 2017, on which he never used and that were occupied at the time he was imprisoned, during the dictatorship.
In the DDJJ neither the house
La Rosadita
- her daughter Zulemita would be the owner -, of Anillaco, her hometown, nor the house in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano, on Echeverría street, where she spent the last time, interrupted by the hospitalizations and their constant health problems.
According to the presentation, Menem was also the owner of two cars -a Peugeot 405 and a 2007 Toyota Corolla-, a low-displacement motorcycle valued at only $ 7,300, works of art and a collection that entered the patrimony in 1999 -before leaving the Presidency - for $ 1 million and cash for just over $ 3 million.
In addition to
shares of telephone companies
that were "donated by the telephone company" in 1991, after the privatizations, valued at just under $ 200,000.
According to his latest DDJJ,
Menem did not
hoard
dollars
.
In September 2013, due to one of the many processes that he had to face due to his management at the head of the Presidency during the 1990s, the Federal Oral Court 4 of the city of Buenos Aires acquitted the former president in
the trial for the that he was investigated for failing to declare Swiss bank accounts and other assets
.
He had been charged with the crimes of malicious omission of an affidavit, ideological falsehood and breach of the duties of a public official, as a result of a report presented in 2000.
Pedro Baldi and Omar Daer
, defense lawyers of the former president, had warned that the indictment was prescribed, and they asked for the dismissal.
Daer and Baldi were hired
by Menem, until these days, as Senate personnel along with two dozen advisers.
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