Drug crisis: the opposition asked to cancel the million-dollar plan to provide internet to prisoners, but the government refused

The opposition representatives Silvana Giudici and José Corral demanded this Tuesday at the board meeting of the National Communications Entity (ENaCom) that

and the call for the presentation of projects within the framework of that program, which

But his proposal was rejected, because

," said the Kirchnerist directors of ENaCom, who have a majority of five votes out of seven on the official body's board of directors.

The request of the two parliamentary directors of the opposition in the ENaCom was made due to

, due to the links between organized crime and the members of drug gangs detained there", since " The situation of violence orchestrated from prisons has worsened, particularly in the city of Rosario," Giudici and Corral stated in a note to which

had access .

The ENaCom board meeting, which was held this Tuesday at its headquarters in Buenos Aires, was the place where Kirchnerism and the opposition debated whether to maintain or revoke the Prison Connectivity Plan, approved by Kirchnerism on December 28, 2021, so that prisoners can

, according to Resolution 2183, published on January 3 of last year in the Official Gazette.

In a dialogue with

, Corral acknowledged that the issue was not on the agenda of the ENaCom board meeting, but said that it was important to treat it the same as the issue on tables, in order to revoke the program, because "it is very dangerous" to give them fiber optic connectivity to prisons

, a former radical mayor of the city of Santa Fe.

Board meeting of the National Communications Entity (ENaCom)

The first prison where

, where several Kirchner officials were detained for corruption, such as former minister Julio De Vido, and currently Ariel "Guille" Cantero, from the Los Monos gang, that terrorizes the inhabitants of Santa Fe.

They benefit Martín Sabbatella

Another of the issues that was discussed this Tuesday at the ENaCom board meeting was

in a legal case for "fraudulent administration" where the former head of the Federal Authority of Audiovisual Communication Services was prosecuted. (ex AFSCA, current ENaCom), Martín Sabbatella, in the presidential administration of Cristina Kirchner.

It is that the president of ENaCom, Claudio Ambrosini, had issued a Resolution -ad referendum of the Board- instructing the lawyer of the official body to drop the

before the Oral Court in Federal Criminal 1 (TOF1).

Giudici questioned that Ambrosini had hidden this information from the ENaCom directors,

since "we were only informed of this Resolution on March 7," Giudici told Clarín, "which was two weeks after presenting the withdrawal in court." .

In that judicial case, initiated by the former president of ENaCom, Miguel de Godoy,

for the alleged commission of the crime of "fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration", for the granting of subsidies for more than $10 million irregularly during his tenure at the head of the official body.

The prosecution of Sabbatella had been ordered in 2018 by federal judge Luis Rodríguez and was unanimously confirmed the following year by the three members of the Federal Chamber, Leopoldo Bruglia, Mariano Llorens and Pablo Bertuzzi, who extended the embargo to $11.5 million

due to the incorporation of new acts of corruption.

On that occasion, the judges also ratified the prosecution and seizure for the same crime against

and former Buenos Aires legislator from Nuevo Encuentro, who currently works at the Ombudsman's Office of the City of Buenos Aires.

But at the ENaCom board meeting, held this Tuesday,

, after the official body withdrew three weeks ago as a complainant in this case and that the prosecutor also decided not to continue with the accusation. .

"The complaint was withdrawn because no tax damage had been determined" for the official body,

an official source from the ENaCom told

Sabbatella is president of the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Authority (ACUMAR), despite the fact that

, for "abuse of authority" in his management at the head of AFSCA, due to irregularities and pressure on Grupo Clarín to forcibly readjust it to the audiovisual media law in 2014.

That judicial sentence was ratified a year and a half ago by the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, but it is not firm since it

by the government official appointed by Alberto Fernández. 

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