08/02/2021 12:17 AM
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Politics
Updated 08/02/2021 12:23 AM
Journalism for All - led by Jorge Lanata - presented a report that puts the magnifying glass on the
multimillion-dollar business
of photomulting and its
implications with officials.
In other words, a business "on both sides of the counter", as defined in this Sunday's note
.
This is not an exaggeration.
According to the report, the estimated collection for infractions
only in the AMBA is 14 billion pesos
per year.
How is the operation reported?
The Chamber of Traffic Violation Administrations and Control Companies (CECAITRA) is the institution that
groups together traffic control companies that
provides software, cameras and radars to the State.
Now, PPT reported that there are 15 companies that make up this Chamber and
in at least five of those firms
two names appear:
Bernardino García
, president of CECAITRA, and
Mariano García,
his son and vice president of the entity.
Jorge Lanata's report on photomultas in PPT.
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"It appears as a non-profit Civil Association but that distributes millions of pesos in profits. It has
contracts with all levels of the State
to offer its services and the main business is that in addition to what is paid, it stays -according to the arrangement. with each jurisdiction - with a part of the
collection for the infractions
", highlights the report of
Journalism for All
prepared by the journalist Manu Jove
.
For example -develops the investigation- in 2020 CECAITRA signed a macro agreement with the
National Road Safety Agency
(ANSV) to participate in
radarization on national routes
and advise the state body on issues of appropriate technologies to carry out controls.
The complaint - always according to the PPT report - is that
the officials
who participate in that agreement
are linked to the Chamber
.
On the one hand, there is the Interjurisdictional Director of the ANSV,
Martín El Tahham
, who until December 31, 2019
worked in a dependency relationship
with CECAITRA.
Martín El Tahham, another of the officials "from both sides of the counter", to whom Jorge Lanata put the spotlight.
Capture PPT
On the other hand, the executive director of the Agency,
Pablo Martínez Carignano
.
"He did not work in a dependency relationship with CECAITRA, but
he
repeatedly
billed him
. In fact, he was a columnist in radio programs (
Pasaron Cosas
, on
Radio Con Vos
, for example) under the
auspices of that entity,
" they said.
In passing, two officials from the National Road Safety Agency were
in turn
linked to CECAITRA.
Pablo Martínez Carignano, a radio columnist, billed the camera for photomulting companies.
Road Safety Officer.
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On the other hand, a mid-2020 contract was revealed between the National Road Safety Agency and the company DETECTRA, which belongs to Mariano García and
is part of the same
CECAITRA
chamber
.
That purchase, of radars, is for
more than 42 million pesos
.
In the crosshairs of the Anti-Corruption Office
From PPT, in its
Box
version
, they also reported that the
Anti-Corruption Office
issued an opinion on July 16.
Jorge Lanata's report on photomults.
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The entity that controls the incompatibilities of the officials argued there that
El Tahham
- from his recent employment relationship with CECAITRA -
had to abstain from signing that agreement.
On the other hand, they
did not comment on Martínez Carignano
, since the official did not present to the OA the invoices that he issued in 2019 addressed to the camera.
Finally, from the program hosted by Lanata they reported that this
is not the first time
that CECAITRA has been denounced by businesses from
"both sides of the counter."
"We are investigated in the
federal justice
of Morón for a similar case. They had links with municipalities that were 'outsourced' through another state agency, the National Technological University. They were hired by different municipalities to provide their service. However,
the amounts did not allow these contracts to be made directly
with a private entity.
The UTN appeared there and behind that entity it was CECAITRA who provided the service, "they indicated.
The name that appeared then as the head of the UTN was
Felipe Yanaduoni
, also a director of CECAITRA.
Yes, ironically, it appeared
on the ethics committee
.
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