The new life of Amado Boudou: advice to K officials and income of $ 600,000 per month

Federico Mayol

08/08/2021 18:02

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Updated 08/08/2021 18:02

He says that his intention is to "resume the profession as an economist" and "form, together with other like-minded colleagues, a consultancy that can provide advice on economics and finance." Depending on his surroundings, he talks with everyone, especially with leaders and officials linked to Kirchnerism. With many of them, he does it frequently. He does not intend to return to public service, at least for now. But he did

instruct his lawyers to appear in court to discuss the sentence that landed him in jail, and for which he has now been granted conditional release

, and to reverse the disqualification that prevents him from holding public office.

Amado Boudou wants revenge.

Benefited towards the end of July by Judge Ricardo Basilico, who accepted a request from the defense and granted him conditional release after serving two-thirds of the sentence for the Ciccone case,

the former vice president seeks to position himself as a reference for consultation of the economic policy of the Frente de Todos

, while rearming their public and family life.

Boudou was arrested in November 2017 by order of judge Ariel Lijo who was investigating him for illicit enrichment together with his partner and close friend

José María Núñez Carmona

.

Less than a year later, in August 2018, he was sentenced to five years and ten months for bribes and negotiations incompatible with the public function for taking over the Ciccone company.

In December of last year, after the endorsement of the Cassation Chamber, it was the Supreme Court that confirmed his conviction.

Cristina Kirchner felt it as a dangerous antecedent for her own medical record

.

After that, it was all benefit: already in house arrest, Boudou first got an eleven-month reduction in the sentence for "educational stimulus."

In the end, he was released.

The front of Amado Boudou's house in Avellaneda.

Photo Fernando de la Orden.

The former minister

now lives with $ 600,000 a month

, the income he receives from his vice president's pension, the salary of his partner and the rent of the Puerto Madero apartment, according to the interview that judicial officials conducted - to which he agreed. diary- once free.

He lives with his family in a three-story villa in Avellaneda that he rents every month and that he obtained through his link with Minister

Jorge Ferraresi

, the strongman of that district.

The former vice president is still pursuing a degree in History that began during his detention at the University of Avellaneda. 

With the Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat, from the kidney of Cristina Kirchner, Boudou always had a close relationship.

It is that

hard Kirchnerism always valued his loyalty to the project, even in the worst moments of his prison career

.

Amado Boudou at his home in Avellaneda where he served his house arrest.

Now it moves without restrictions.

Photo Juan Manuel Foglia.

Facundo Tignanelli

, provincial deputy and right-hand man of

Máximo Kirchner

in the Buenos Aires camper project, visited him, for example, at the time in the Ezeiza prison.

A sign of the overwhelming support of the group led by the head of the Frente de Todos bloc in the lower house.

Now, without an electronic anklet, with the condition of informing an address from time to time and requesting permission to leave the country, Boudou often advises different cadres of camping.

Luana Volnovich

and

Fernanda Raverta

, head of PAMI and ANSES, respectively, are two of them.

Juan Zabaleta

, the mayor of Hurlingham who is hours away from assuming the Ministry of Social Development, is another of those who always kept the link.

Especially in the worst moments.

They worked together in ANSES: Zabaleta, they say, denied the commercial role of Núñez Carmona from the outset.

The park and the pool of the house in Avellaneda where Amado Boudou served house arrest.

Boudou interacts at least twice a week in virtual meetings with hundreds of militants and consultants from the ruling party, such as Artemio López, in which his political and economic thinking goes down.

The former vice president

is critical of the economic program of the Casa Rosada promoted by Martín Guzmán

, an official whose management is viewed with suspicion by Kirchnerism.

The former Minister of Economy and Alberto Fernández never hit it off

.

History tells, in fact, that the President objected to Cristina Kirchner at the time, in her role as Chief of Cabinet, to the appointment of Boudou to the head of ANSES after the departure of Sergio Massa.

Amado Boudou's cars.

Inside, the Audi he has had since he was a civil servant.

Photo: Luciano Thieberger.

Official sources report that last year, when the Court confirmed its conviction for Ciccone, the head of state was upset with Santiago Cafiero, who defended the former official from his Twitter account. Boudou bets on the project of the Frente de Todos.

Like Cristina Kirchner, she believes that unity is beneficial to her interests, despite internal tensions

.