Federico Mayol
02/24/2021 17:52
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/24/2021 5:52 PM
It was not a raid.
It was, in principle, only a presentation order to collect records and documentation under the hypothesis, by the investigators, of the existence of
another VIP vaccination,
that new privilege that was exposed after the revelation of the secret operation of the past Thursday in the Ministry of Health of the Nation, which ended with the departure of Ginés González García and the biggest political crisis of the Government.
But when the local prosecutor Verónica Marcantonio and her collaborators noticed that
the staff of the San Felipe Hospital, in the center of the Buenos Aires city of San Nicolás,
hid information, they ordered an emergency search that was also transferred to the other vaccination center, that works in a school in that town, and the property of a local reference that, according to the directors,
treasured a written record with the identity of a group of vaccinated.
The judicial operation this Tuesday night, full of unusual details, was reconstructed by
Clarín
through judicial and police sources.
And it takes special significance not only
because of the alleged existence of a privileged vaccination program -revealed
by a media
outlet in
the area- to which leaders related to the leadership of the hospital and local referents, the main line of investigation of the prosecutor and the judge, would have accessed. of guarantees, in the case labeled, for now, as abuse of authority and violation of the duties of a public official.
If not because
San Nicolás is the city of origin
of former Minister González García and, in particular, of his nephew
Lisandro Bonelli
, who also resigned this Monday as the head of the Health Cabinet.
Bonelli spends his days secluded in the family home on Rivadavia Street, half a block from the municipality.
After copying
the digital record of vaccinated from December 29 to this Tuesday
on a
pen drive
and collecting about 400 immunization cards, the researchers asked
Pablo Gavazza, the head of the hospital,
and two other managers for a list made by hand with other beneficiaries, accurate information that they had in the prosecution.
Lisandro Bonelli, former Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Health, a native of San Nicolás (Photo: Ministry of Health).
The health authorities denied the information.
The researchers insisted.
They denied it again, as this newspaper reconstructed.
Given the refusal, Marcantonio ordered an urgent search.
The directors then recognized that yes, that in the city school where another vaccination center was installed, there was a folder with that information, but that there was no such payroll at the hospital.
Although at that time, in the face of what was already configured as a situation at least striking, they did admit that there was another manual record,
but that it was in the power of a "local reference"
who was not in the place.
The hounds wanted to know where they found him.
They gave them an address.
When they wanted to corroborate it, it turned out that the referent had moved.
They then got another address.
The members of the Federal Police who participated in the raid went to look for him.
They contacted him.
The person, whose name did not transcend, confessed that yes, it was he they were looking for, but that the list was not in his possession, as the managers had said, if not in the "COVID room", in the ground floor of the hospital.
The investigators finally proceeded to take his testimonial statement.
The payroll was in the room in question.
In the middle of the operation, police sources assured, a nurse from that sector left in a hurry.
According to sources in the investigation,
the referent who had to testify under oath
presented himself as responsible for the vaccination operation.
Sponsored by one of the directors who, according to sources, responds to the group La Cámpora.
It is that in San Nicolás, Bonelli, who handled the details of the ministry at his discretion that his uncle González García led until Friday, maintains a strong bid with the group founded by Máximo Kirchner.
It is one of the reasons why the former official was never tolerated by the camper leaders.
The former head of the Health Cabinet has ancestry over three local councilors.
Former Renovador Front, he
now intends to return to the provincial bank for which he applied,
and succeeded, until he went to the ministry.
It seems difficult.
What the prosecution must now determine is whether there was indeed VIP vaccination, what the procedure was like and who or who ran the shifts outside the Buenos Aires immunization system.
It is only the beginning.
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