Lucia Salinas
08/20/2021 18:56
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/20/2021 6:56 PM
The Salta justice detected a bank account to which
contributions that are under investigation were transferred
, after former PAMI managers denounced that a La Cámpora leader forced them to hand over 20% of their salaries.
The prosecution has already requested the guarantee judge to lift the bank secrecy and the financial institution was required to make all the movements of funds linked to that account.
The federal prosecutor of Salta
Ricardo Toranzo is
carrying out the case where he is investigating whether PAMI authorities members of La Cámpora
"used the official structures for illegal collection",
after two former managers convicted of the irregular collection
of the Emergency Family Income (IFE )
stated that 20% of their wages were withheld.
These testimonies were heard prior to the sentence to three years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office received by two former PAMI managers in Salta.
They were accused of the
undue collection of the IFE in 2020
, the social aid distributed by the Government in a pandemic.
During the statements of the accused, the discharge ended up splashing the group led by Máximo Kirchner at the national level.
In the trial, both indicated that they
were obliged to leave 20% of their salary for La Cámpora,
through the intervention of a camper located in front of the ANSES UDAI in that province.
The complaint that was heard in the trial was the following: "We had to deliver 20% of his salary income to La Cámpora, withholding that was in charge of
Marcos Vera
, former director of ANSES in Salta (also suspected by the IFE charge) and
Verónica Molina,
current owner of PAMI Salta ".
With the file in progress, and after a series of measures ordered by the prosecutor that led to the kidnapping of a significant amount of documentation,
the case seeks to unravel whether that money was forcibly required and where it was sent
, judicial sources explained to
Clarín.
For the federal justice of Salta, the underlying issue is that handing over money to a group would not be framed in a crime, because it could constitute a donation: "politics does not admit anonymous donations, and here there is no record whatsoever in the parties, much less in the clusters, "they indicated.
Prosecutor Toranzo found
a bank account to which money was sent from these alleged contributions
under investigation.
For this reason, a week ago the lifting of bank secrecy was requested, and according to
Clarín,
the financial entity was required to provide all the documentation on
the movements of funds related to that account.
The investigators' work is focused on monitoring the accounts "because many paid by bank transfer and they seek to determine the destination of the money," judicial sources explained to this newspaper.
Among the documents analyzed are
all the appointments made in the ANSES and PAMI of Salta during 2020.
Meanwhile, the prosecution took several testimonial statements among the employees, and some admitted to having "made cash payments in favor of La Cámpora" .
Among them, some pointed out that said contribution
"had been voluntary
.
"
Other complainants, however, indicated that
the demand for this money was under duress.
In Salta the accusatory system works, which is why the investigation is completely in charge of the prosecution.
When progress is made with the collection and analysis of evidence, the prosecutor Toranzo will formulate the corresponding charges.
The file of the 50 councilors
In the federal justice of Salta there are
52 councilors from 32 municipalities under investigation, since they would have managed the collection of the IFE for themselves
.
That list already included
Marcos Vera
, former head of ANSES and accused of withholding part of the employees' salary.
Now that file was expanded on these new facts.
The hearing of the control of the accusation for the collection of the IFE of the councilors will continue on September 2.
However, according to judicial sources entrusted to
Clarín, some fifteen officials have already begun to request that they be submitted to the
probation
institute
, offering compensation, community tasks and in some cases a self-disqualification for two elective periods.
They are councilors who did not collect the IFE, but are accused of the
attempt to defraud the public administration.
For them there would be no problem in granting them
probation, trusted case sources.
Those who did commit the crime are also entitled to disqualification from holding public office.
In addition to compensation and the performance of community tasks, they must "propose a self-disqualification for four years to be candidates, so that it is appropriate," it was explained.
