The purchase of a field with illicit money, a “trout” financial company, bids for a cleaning company,
the oldest case of “K corruption”:
all those hot files for Kirchnerism are in the hands of the Federal Oral Court 4 ( TOF 4), which sentenced Lázaro Báez to twelve years in prison on the Money Route K, and
they seek to carry out the trials during this 2023
, which will also have politics and the electoral calendar as protagonists.
The TOF 4 awaits the decision of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, the highest criminal court, regarding the conviction handed down almost three years ago against Báez, a former business partner of Cristina Kirchner.
The owner of Austral Construcciones was accused of
having laundered 55 million dollars
and offering the central link of that laundering structure with his flagship firm, the same one to which the Kirchner government awarded 51 road tenders between 2003 and 2015.
The vote of two of the three judges of the court linked the maneuvers that were the object of investigation in the case with the irregularities of the public road works that meant for the vice president her first conviction for corruption.
The T=F 4, made up of judges
Néstor Costabel, Jorge Gorini and Gabriela López Íñiguez
, has other oral trials ahead where
sensitive cases for both Lázaro Báez and Kirchnerism will be debated.
With the new integration of TOF 4 -since it is one of the courts in Comodoro Py that is incomplete-, the oral debate agenda for this year includes
at least four files for corruption.
The oldest of these is the
Skanska case
, the first major corruption scandal of the Kirchner government, which broke out in 2005. It was not until 2019 that Judge
Sebastián Casanello
raised the file to an oral trial (the case had been closed and after the reopening was responsible for the instruction).
In this investigation, Julio De Vido, José López and 29 other defendants
for the crimes of
fraudulent administration and bribery
will have to face the oral debate .
The headquarters of the Swedish construction company Skanska in Buenos Aires, before its withdrawal from the country.
Photo Luciano Thieberger.
The list of defendants who will appear in the oral instance includes the former manager of Banco Nación Trusts,
Néstor Ulloa
and former directors of the company.
In this case,
23 companies that intervened in the preparation of trout invoices
through which illegal payments were simulated were investigated.
The directors of these companies were only prosecuted for the crime of bribery as co-authors.
The list of cases that the Federal Oral Court 4 is in charge of and whose trial it seeks to start this year includes
another two that involve Báez for the crime of money laundering.
For Justice, the former business partner of the vice president "integrated a gang dedicated to laundering money between 2010 and 2013 aggravated by habituality" and the "hoarding of funds in Switzerland", not only by the externalization of money and its re-entry into the country .
This laundering structure, which in three years would have moved 55 million dollars, has as its "mother" investigation the one known as the K Money Route. But two more circuits of maneuvers emerged from it, which earned contractor K prosecutions, new embargoes and, in one of them, continue in house arrest.
On December 17, 2019, Judge Casanello sent Lázaro Báez to trial
along with two of his children, Luciana and Martín
(the latter also in prison) in a case where the
movement of million-dollar sums made through the M&P firm
was investigated. , with Austral Construcciones and another series of companies that would have officiated as
financial caves
in the midst of the millionaire embargoes that they had ordered.
The justice system detected the transfer of millions in sums for the "sale of asphalt" to Austral Construcciones, Báez's flagship company by M&P, whose main authorities are the eldest sons of contractor K.
A hundred checks were analyzed for more than 9 millions of pesos.
It is not the only file that emerges from the K Money Route, although the accusation is the same: money laundering.
But in this case for
the purchase of a field in Uruguay
for 14 million dollars.
In said file ,
Leonardo Fariña
was also accused , who declared as a collaborator accused.
According to the accusation that sent him to trial, the owner of Austral Construcciones, in his capacity as "owner of the money of illicit origin inserted in the market, issued the orders and entrusted the successive administrators of those funds -Fariña and later the collaborators of Báez
Daniel Pérez Gadín and Jorge Chueco
- apply them in the projected real estate development on the Uruguayan coast".
Among the former Kirchner officials who will sit in the dock before the TOF 4 for another corruption case is
Ricardo Echegaray
.
It is for the reason that he investigated the
alleged overpricing in the award of cleaning services from
AFIP under his direction.
The then judge Sergio Torres - today a member of the Buenos Aires Court - prosecuted the former head of the AFIP for the crimes of
fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration and negotiations incompatible
with the public function.
"Ricardo Echegaray is responsible for awarding the tender. His statements regarding the fact that he acted based on the recommendations made by the intervening areas are useless, since these agencies advise but do not have the capacity to resolve the process," the president had indicated. Judge Torres.
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