Daniel Santoro
08/07/2021 18:58
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/07/2021 8:32 PM
Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and prosecutor Carlos Rívolo await next week
the results of expert opinions on telephones and computers
of three people accused of trying to extort money from the undersecretary of National Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Fernando Asencio, and the career ambassador Luis María Kreckler.
With the result of these expert opinions,
the procedural situation of the former Peronist militant from La Matanza Martín Disanto and Victoria González and Claudio Petruzzi
who were arrested last Thursday, after they finalized the extortion order at the Hilton hotel,
will be defined
in the form cinematographic.
However, justice this weekend was looking
for two other alleged members of the gang
who would have participated in the extortion attempts with political overtones.
Asencio
immediately made the complaint in Comodoro Py as soon as he received a visit from one of the extortionists
at the beginning of the week and then he attended that meeting with a
hidden microphone provided by the Antifraud division of the Federal Police
.
Police officers
supervised the
entire operation from an adjoining room in a hotel where the extortion attempt was taking place.
Gonzalez, who falsely presented himself
as Máximo Kirchner's private secretary
and a member of the Federal Intelligence Agency, threatened Asencio with disseminating
a folder with false records and an AFI stamp of the
trusted official of Foreign Minister Felipe Solá and former PJ deputy .
In exchange for not revealing the folder, Gonzalez and Petruzzi demanded that Disanto
be appointed to a position in the Foreign Ministry
and that they agree
to contracts from the UN development program (known as UNDP)
.
These contracts are to finance studies on sustainable development although, sometimes, they are used to have political "gnocchi" in the Chancellery.
The plan also involved blackmailing Foreign Minister Solá, sources stressed.
The plot began at the beginning of last week when the woman who claimed to be Máximo's secretary summoned Asencio, who is a member of the PJ of La Matanza, to the Hilton to discuss on behalf of
"the president of the block of deputies of the Frente de Todos candidacies for I STEP them ”.
But at that first meeting, Máximo did not appear and Asencio was approached by the woman who claimed to belong to the AFI, along with a name that later turned out to be Petruzzi, judicial sources told
Clarín
. They showed him the folder with personal, family and property information and an alleged case of fraud. Upon leaving that first contact,
Asencio immediately made the complaint that by lottery fell to Judge Capuchetti and prosecutor Rívolo.
To his surprise, the next day
Disanto came to the Chancery
and explained the terms of the agreement more precisely. After this visit, Asencio once again ratified his complaint before the Justice. The extortionists even spoke of the need to
"raise" funds to finance the electoral campaign of the Frente de Todos
. Disanto claimed "to be known to Raúl Magario" whom he was familiarly linked with the Buenos Aires deputy governor Verónica Magario, which shows that they had political information from the PJ inmate.
Following the thread of the extortionists, Asencio appeared Thursday at the Hilton, with
a microphone hidden in his suit, and recorded the conversation
.
At one point, he asked about the folder and the woman, then, took it out and told him that if he was so worried, he would
tear it.
Then they interrupted the Federal armed troops and arrested the extortionists.
The folder, a key evidence,
could be rebuilt
.
In parallel, the Federal
detained Disanto in the San Isidro Labrador neighborhood, Tigre district.
At that moment, by chance the career diplomat and former ambassador to China Luis María Kreckler approached and asked Rívolo's secretary - who was supervising the operation from the hotel lobby -
where the meeting with Máximo Kirchner was
.
Warned, he realized that he was going to be the second victim of the gang.
Kreckler presented a testimonial statement, handed over his cell phone and the court
took the screenshots of the messages from the extortionists that he needed.
In the case, Máximo declared in writing and
denied knowing the three detainees who used his name without his knowledge
.
For their part, they refused to testify before Judge Capuchetti and this weekend they
were still in detention.
In the Courts of Comodoro Py it was assured that the case
"is very closed and proven"
and surprise was expressed by the
"crude and audacious"
of the operation.
Those accused of extortion left footprints everywhere and "did not even use communication jammers" as professionals of this type of crime do.
But
Asencio's immediate complaint
, without going around or trying to negotiate, facilitated the investigation and obtaining evidence, the sources highlighted.
The detainees are accused of the crime
of threatening an official with extortion modality
that has a sentence of between 5 to 15 years.