03/17/2021 18:49
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 03/17/2021 6:49 PM
Martín Soria is a nominated Minister of Justice, a Rio Negro deputy for resigning, a former employee of the Library of Congress and the courts of Comodoro Py - which he now calls
Comodoro Pro
- and a brand new squire in the fight against
lawfare
: political persecution supposed that it
pulverizes in a single story all the
accumulated
evidence
in the Kirchnerist causes of corruption, no matter how strong they are.
In the midst of all this, Soria was mayor of General Roca for 8 years.
There
he withheld 6 percent of their salaries
from all the officials he incorporated into his management.
It was not two, not four, but
38
.
Of every 100 pesos that the municipality paid them, 6 were for Soria.
Six times 38. Every month for 8 years, with the alleged goodwill of the dispossessed, but
in black
.
According to the judicial investigation, the Municipality of General Roca printed the official a salary receipt with the full salary, but then a 6% lower amount was credited to his bank account.
The difference was given in cash to the mayor
.
Not by those who automatically received the discount, which did not appear anywhere, but directly
by the municipal Treasury.
In other words, the "volunteers" made their monthly contribution
before the money reached their hands.
This, in addition to the complaining lawyer - the opposition leader Nicolás Suárez Colman - ratified it ...
Soria himself
.
The brand-new Minister of Justice declared in the case:
"There is no municipal regulation that prohibits the mechanism of voluntary contributions discounts, being the same long-standing and usual one, having received no claim from those who made the contribution in question
.
"
A phrase
full of revelations:
There is no municipal regulation that prohibits it
.
Martín Soria was mayor for 8 years, succeeded his father, and then was succeeded by his sister.
Why would the Soria forbid a contribution to Martín?
And, furthermore, what margin for refusing the “voluntary” contribution would an official who assumes this
usual and long-standing practice have
?
Who would want to break tradition if they wanted to keep their job?
The fee was called, without euphemisms,
"Voluntary Contribution to the Political Project of Mayor Martín Soria"
and was collected by him
in cash, in black, at his discretion and without accountability
.
Although these contributions
were never banked
, the prosecutor Julieta Villa dismissed the complaint against Soria, his secretary of the Treasury, his director of Finance and the members of the Court of Accounts because they understand that
“the necessary elements are not gathered to frame the facts in a figure typical criminal ”
.
Of course, the same prosecutor says that
"the way to raise funds to solve the political project of Soria was administratively
sloppy
."
After the appeal, the chief prosecutor, María Teresa Giuffrida, said that
"it is appropriate to deepen the investigation with respect to some officials and confirm the dismissal with respect to others ..."
.
For her, the collection system was
"extremely informal
.
"
And he ordered to continue investigating the Soria officials,
but not Soria
.
That is, to investigate those who carried out the orders to deduct and give the money in hand to the mayor, but
not to the mayor who gave those orders and collected the money every month
.
The dismissal of Soria leaves more curiosities.
One is that it was last month,
too close to
the time when his name started ringing as a future justice minister.
Another is that in Río Negro the accusatory system that they are going to put in the Capital is working if they manage to remove Attorney Casal, as the hard Kirchnerism has been battling.
In that system -as we see in General Roca-,
if the prosecutors do not advance, there is no cause
.
The one who goes after Cristina's obsession is precisely the new minister Soria.