06/29/2021 7:18 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 06/29/2021 7:18 PM
Just a year ago, Fabián Gutiérrez was preparing everything to move on July 1 to a house where he would finally live alone.
"I want more privacy,"
he had told his friends.
On July 2 he was
dead
, after being ambushed by a young man who had been seducing him for months to force the encounter that came the night of the crime.
That boy brought in two others and, according to the judge, between the three of them they killed Cristina Kirchner's former secretary after
torturing him
and giving him a
brutal beating.
The young man whom Gutiérrez had quoted kept in a notebook an image from the
Ámbito Financiero
newspaper
that said that Fabián, his inmate, had been prosecuted for laundering money from the cause of the notebooks.
It is clear that the assassins were looking for
hidden treasure
.
The young killers were quickly identified and detained, although it is not yet known if the three of them were all involved.
The treasure
never appeared
, and everything seems to indicate that that night there were
more interested
in trying to find out the possible hiding places of the ambushed victim.
A pickup truck
waited outside
while the youths tortured Gutiérrez.
Those who occupied it were never identified.
The murderers took Fabian's cell phone and used it.
Who did he talk to, before he was ambushed?
With whom did his murderers talk, using his device, while they interrogated him for information?
The telephones of those involved were sent from Santa Cruz to the Buenos Aires Gendarmerie offices to be appraised.
All cell phones arrived in sealed envelopes, in judicial custody.
One only came
with the envelope open.
Just that of Gutiérrez.
All the devices could be "opened" to view their content.
Only
one could not be opened because it arrived damaged.
Just that of Gutiérrez.
The victim's cell phone is still
mute and encrypted
a year later
.
It could never be analyzed because someone
"wet it, it is as if a liquid had been thrown at it
,
"
said a source in the case.
It is an
iPhone
of a model that resists accidental wetting.
If it
"got wet"
and was rendered useless, it was wet
willingly and on purpose
.
Now there is a request from the justice of Santa Cruz to United States companies to see if the content of the cell phone of the murdered former secretary of Cristina could be downloaded from the digital "cloud", a procedure that the global technology giants almost never access .
Gutiérrez had entered to work with the Kirchners having an old car and came out with
36 properties, 35 cars - most of them luxury - and three boats
.
He had declared as repentant in the cause of the notebooks.
There he said that José López was going to see Kirchner at the Casa Rosada
at night and carrying bags
.
And that Ricardo Jaime also used to go at night, always with
a backpack
.
López is the one who brought bags with
$ 9 million in cash
to hide in a convent in Moreno, six months after Cristina's second government ended.
Jaime
confessed to collecting bribes
and is still in prison.
Gutiérrez's alleged killers are in custody, but some clues to the deep and comprehensive answers about the true causes of his fierce crime could be, a year later,
in the digital cloud.
It is always disturbing to see again that, in any circumstance, someone in Argentina can kick the evidence of cases that touch power to the sky.
So they stay there until the bureaucracy devours them.
Or oblivion.