The VIP vaccination prosecutor removed the parents of Minister Carla Vizzotti from the case

Lucia Salinas

08/17/2021 13:07

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 08/17/2021 1:22 PM

The case of the VIP Vaccination awaits the decision of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber on the partial file of the actions against 70 people who were inoculated.

Among other open ends, there was the investigation on the role of

the parents of the Minister of Health

, Carla Vizzotti, to determine

how it was that they were vaccinated just the first day that the inoculation began for their age group

.

The prosecutor Eduardo Taiano dismissed the accusations and raised the non-existence of the crime.

The chronology that the Justice put together determined that the official's parents were vaccinated against the coronavirus one day before the VIP vaccination scandal broke out, which led to the resignation of Ginés González García, Vizzoti's predecessor and until then his direct boss.

They are

Carlos Alberto Vizzotti

, a 77-year-old retired doctor, and his wife, S

ilvia Manteca Acosta

, a 74-year-old housewife. The Minister's parents agreed to the vaccination on Thursday, February 18, at a school in Ingeniero Maschwitz, a party of Escobar.

Both were inoculated on the first day authorized for the vaccination of older adults in the Province of Buenos Aires, and hours before the journalist Horacio Verbitsky confessed that he had agreed to the immunization in an office of the Ministry of Health.

The prosecutor Taiano was delegated to this instance and before deciding he ordered a series of measures.

He required the national government to send all the information related to the application of the vaccine to Vizzoti's parents.

After analyzing the documentation sent by the Buenos Aires government and the national Ministry of Health, the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office determined that in the inoculation of Vizzott's parents

there was no crime committed

, since they were all of the age as members of the risk group and complied with the requirements then in force under the vaccination plan.

The Vizzotti vaccination was registered in the Argentine Integrated Health Information System (known by its acronym, SISA).

From the Government, on that occasion, they indicated that the Minister's parents requested a turn "like any other citizen and were summoned to be vaccinated like other older adults in the same circumstances."

According to the SISA registry,

Vizzotti's father is listed as "health personnel".

Although he is a doctor, he

is retired

.

Carlos Vizzotti was part of the board of the Fundación Isalud, the

sanitary

think tank

created by González García.

Until 2019 he was listed as assistant treasurer.

His wife was recorded in the registry as "over 60 years old" although the information took time to be uploaded.

Other open lines of research

For the VIP Vaccination, Ginés and his nephew

Lisandro Bonelli

, former head of the advisory cabinet of the Ministry of Health

, continue to be charged and under investigation

.

Also added to the indictment were

Marcelo Guille

, an off-road public advisor and private business partner of the former minister and the Undersecretary of Service and Institute Management,

Alejandro Collia.

The vaccine route to El Calafate

The file has another edge open that has not yet been classified:

the origin of the 60 vaccines that ended up in the El Calafate Hospital

, and the reasons why they were sent there.

To determine if it was an irregular grant, Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti asked for a list of the people who were inoculated with that batch of Sputnik V. The Ministry of Health also had to provide information on the distribution and shipment.

All documentation entered the court and is under analysis.

In addition, as

Clarín

revealed

, Justice is investigating

whether Cristina Kirchner's gardener was vaccinated in a VIP vaccination center in El Calafate.

More bluntly, the Office of the Attorney for Administrative Investigations (PIA) had indicated that "so far it has not been possible to establish 

what was the amount of actual doses distributed to certain provinces

."

At this point, they focused on the case of the province governed by Alicia Kirchner.

“It was reported that the doses distributed to Santa Cruz amounted to 13,000;

in the province of Santa Cruz there is the SAMIC Hospital "El Calafate" (national institution);

in the distribution table by province, it is not observed individually how many of those 13,000 doses were distributed to the SAMIC Hospital "El Calafate" and how many to the province itself. "

By order of the Attorney General's Office, the Ministry headed by Carla Vizzotti had to expand the administrative summary already initiated to include the alleged diversion of vaccines to El Calafate.