Lucia Salinas
04/05/2021 1:42 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/05/2021 1:42 PM
The federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita intimidated Carlos Kirchner, a former official of the Federal Planning Ministry and cousin of Néstor Kirchner, to
justify his assets
: one that, at the official exchange rate,
exceeds one hundred million pesos,
according to judicial sources.
That fortune is made up of more than twenty properties, some acquired before entering the public service and another large amount during his time in government.
For the prosecution,
these purchases are not conditional on Kirchner's income from 2003 to 2015
.
There was a later period where he was investigated for suspicious movements of money.
All of this must be accounted for within ten days.
The case against the former president's cousin began in 2017, after a complaint from the Financial Information Unit (UIF) led by Mariano Federici during the Macrista government.
The anti-money laundering body stated in a report that Carlos Santiago Kirchner “proceeded to
hide part of his assets
, along with the participation of his primary family group (wife and children) by setting up
a company, which he has endowed with assets for sums sidereal
”.
During the investigation, the prosecutor Pollicita detected a set of
23 properties that would belong to the former official
.
One of them in Miami, whose initial value exceeds $ 650,000.
The traceability of financial movements and the analysis carried out by the prosecution of the affidavits yielded "a set of inconsistencies that cannot explain the increase in assets," judicial sources told
Clarín.
The investigation was extended to members of Carlos Kirchner's family
.
The prosecution team works on the financial movements, constituted companies, acquisition of goods through them, of the wife of the former official and his daughter.
When he arrived at the public function, in the Ministry of Planning, Carlos Santiago Kirchner had a building and two vehicles.
When he left the public function, he
accumulated 17 properties for 2.8 million pesos, five cars for 612,100 pesos and a boat for 42,000 pesos.
Adding up the savings, deposits and dollars saved, his declared equity as of 2014 was 9.3 million.
Another line was added to the investigation, which has to do with declaring "undervalued properties, which are worth up to five times more."
During the previous administration, the UIF also suspected that the Kirchner cousin "hid assets" by
acquiring properties and automobiles for 48 million pesos through a paint shop
.
These figures were outdated after the prosecutor Pollicita began the asset investigation task, where he
detected more properties
.
All this must be explained by Carlos Kirchner.
Based on this initial accusation, Pollicita initiated the patrimonial investigation.
Last year, during the pandemic, operations were carried out on 23 properties to be able to appraise them.
In turn, three properties were detected in the Federal Capital, whose declared value would be lower than the real one.
These are two apartments on Cerviño Street, in Palermo, "which were declared for a much lower value than the original and according to market prices they have a much higher cost," judicial sources told
Clarín
.
For this reason, the prosecutor signed a request for justification of assets.
Kirchner has ten business days to respond, with the possibility of requesting an extension.
If you do not agree with your response to the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office, that would be the instance prior to a request for an investigation before Judge Julián Ercolini.
Property tracking became a central axis in the investigation.
The first complaint claimed that Kirchner had declared some of his properties with undervalued values.
In a few years, Carlos Kirchner acquired 17 properties (five houses, three premises, four apartments, three lands - two in El Calafate and one in Río Gallegos - a rural property and another property dedicated to investment in the Federal Capital) than in his last sworn statement have a value of 2.8 million pesos.
Carlos Kirchner
is being processed for being part of an illicit association in public works,
which ended up favoring Lázaro Báez with 51 road contracts for $ 46,000 million.
It has an embargo of 10,000 million pesos, and now it faces a patrimonial investigation that analyzed the acquisition of properties, movements of funds, from 2003 to 2017.