Lucia Salinas
09/16/2021 16:04
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/16/2021 16:04
Chamber II of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber confirmed the indictment against a key accomplice of Lázaro Báez in the Ruta del Dinero K,
Néstor Carlos Ramos
, owner of
Helvetic Service Group.
Judge Sebastián Casanello prosecuted him for money laundering, finding him a key piece in the structure that allowed Cristina Kirchner's former partner to launder $ 33 million. The $ 300 million embargo was upheld. But in addition, the chambermaids ordered the magistrate to
resolve
the situation of the vice president,
who more than a year and a half ago was issued a lack of merit.
In March 2019, the same court had confirmed the lack of merit that Judge Sebastián Casanello had ruled on Cristina in the Money Route K. At that time, the magistrate was asked to
incorporate into the file the statements made in
favor of the former secretary of Public Works
José López;
the former Kirchner accountant,
Víctor Manzanares and Juan Manuel Campillo
, former Minister of the Economy of Santa Cruz, in
the cause of
the Bribery Notebooks.
The Chamber ordered the judge that, once the aforementioned confessions are included in the case, the former president be confronted with those sayings, which will require
a new investigation.
At that time, the Chamber II of the Federal Chamber of
Buenos Aires had taken "search and reunion deepen sufficient evidence to determine or rule out
the alleged involvement of Cristina Kirchner to the cause."
After the Federal Chamber (with other judges) ordered him to investigate the former president, the judge decided to order the lack of merit, an intermediate decision between an indictment and a dismissal.
In doing so, Casanello ordered a series of measures, such as elucidating
who is the true owner of the shell company Aldyne
registered in the Seychelles.
During these measures, the Federal Oral Court 4 (TOF 4) sentenced Lázaro Báez to twelve years for money laundering in the Money Route K. Cristina Kirchner is not among the defendants, but has not yet been removed from the file .
"Article 207 of the procedural code imposes an end to the processes in a period of time, you must decide whether to dismiss or prosecute Cristina Kirchner," judicial sources explained to
Clarín.
It is possible that Judge Casanello may require an extension to be issued, "which should be very well justified, since in this case everything is finished, even with a ruling by a court against Lázaro Báez, therefore no an extension would be justified, "they indicated.
In 2018 last year, it had been the chambermaids
Martín Irurzun and Javier Llorens who ordered Casanello to investigate the former President.
When he finally complied with the repeated order of the Chamber to investigate Cristina, Casanello called her to an investigation but later considered that there were not enough elements to incriminate her and dictated a lack of merit.
In the same resolution that the Federal Chamber signed this Thursday, judges Farah and Llorens confirmed the prosecution of Néstor Ramos, owner of Helvetic Service Group, the company used to buy the financial company SGI, better known as La Rosadita, where the Báez were laundering money. and that became famous for the video in which
the son of businessman K, Martín, counted 5 million dollars and toasted with whiskey.
Ramos defended himself with a letter from Switzerland, where he is based and where Báez had several bank accounts used to move money of illicit origin. Casanello processed it as a participant in the structure that allowed it to be put into circulation during December 2012 and January, February. March and April 2013, “
assets of illicit origin that would be owned by Lázaro Báez, for a sum of 32.8 million dollars
, which would end up being incorporated into the patrimony of Austral Construcciones SA,” the resolution states.
The route of the K money was linked to the file that investigates fraud through public works, considering the latter as the
"precedent crime"
of the
money
laundering maneuvers. In addressing the contracts,
Báez received 52 bids for 46,000 million pesos,
which were later applied to different laundering maneuvers. These alleged crimes will begin to be tried next May.
In other files, it was also determined that
a portion of these funds were derived from the Kirchner family's assets,
through other businesses entered into with Báez: the rental of hotel rooms and their administration (Hotesur cause) and the lease contracts signed with Los Sauces, the real estate agency of the Kirchner family. The sum in both files where money laundering was investigated, yields income in favor of the former presidential relative of more than 50 million pesos only between 2009 and 2015.