A few days ago, the vice-president of the General Audit Office of the Nation, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, along with Senators Ignacio Torres and Alfredo Cornejo, released shocking information at a press conference regarding the illegal delivery of land to self-perceived communities. aborigines" or "native peoples" in what is known as the "Border Security Zone": an extensive border corridor, rich in minerals and fresh water of immeasurable strategic and geopolitical value for the country.
The matter itself (theft, lack of control and barbarity at the country's borders) meant a recent and new call for attention by the Supreme Court in the case "Mapuches vs.
Argentine Army”, where the INAE (Institute for the Protection of the Aboriginal Community), without any constitutional basis, ceded “free” (0 dollars) to a dubious Mapuche community, about 220 hectares of the Andean Regiment of Bariloche: as a repair economic and hereditary ownership of those lands.
Something more dramatic in criminal terms occurred with the Mamul ranch located in the wonderful valleys of Trevelin (Chubut), where the mayor of that city, Carlos Mantenga, granted such a field at a low price (USD 15,000), which includes 45% of Lake Rosario. (known throughout the world for its freshwater reserve), to some supposed heirs of "native peoples", who after a few months resold the property at market price (USD 8 million) to a suspicious organization led by foreign nationals. Ukrainian and Russian.
The deposit of what is believed to be a gift or "bribe" was made in the Principality of Andorra (tax haven) with an account in the name of the undoubtedly false members of the indefinite and broad group of "native peoples".
Such a network of real estate operations, without a doubt, are a true scandal of corruption and international money laundering, in which national, provincial and municipal officials participate, as well as alleged national businessmen, politicians of various partisan extractions and "millionaires" of the stature of Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern aristocrats.
All under the slow and stealthy criminal investigation of file No. CFP 9184/20, labeled “Katunin s/art.
148, 265 et seq.
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The little that the file did verify is that there is a corruption "mechanism" aimed at allowing the entry of illicit assets, the result of national and transnational crimes, which are laundered in the purchase of fields in said sensitive areas for national security. .
To carry out the operations, local figureheads and influential notaries, lawyers and accountants are used to establish false financial and notarial "smokescreens": with a view to hiding the enormous "scam" or "looting" that the country suffers in a stealthy manner , systematic and deep.
This network of corruption, illicit association and money laundering undoubtedly has the collusion of various control agencies, such as the National Directorate of Security Zones and Borders (dependency of the Ministry of Security led by Aníbal Fernandez), the Institute National Indigenous Affairs Unit (INAI) and the Anti-Laundering Unit (UIF): all of them "look suspiciously the other way", enabling the criminal and dramatic convoy to seize national lands.
This affects, as the Supreme Court has said in the case "Friedrich, E. s/amparo" the right to property, legal security (arts. 17 and 18 CN) and could add to national sovereignty.
This reality does not discriminate against any of the latitudes of our country.
According to a recent report released by the National Audit Office, led by the radical Jesús Rodríguez and former senator Pichetto, 70% of the real estate operations requested from the National Directorate of Security Zones and Borders (in charge of real estate and land investments located near the borders of the country) are "lazy papers" and turn out to be "suspicious" in terms of financial integrity and prevention of asset laundering, including front men and irregular or apocryphal registry and notarial documentation.
There are suspicious operations in practically all the bordering provinces of the country (eg, Salta, Mendoza, Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego and Misiones), without having established, for the moment, the specific magnitude of the "looting" already consummated to the detriment of the Argentines.
The matter is now in the hands of the federal criminal justice system.
But the institutional responsibility for the serious problem falls on the three powers of the State.
It is that Argentina, by ratifying international treaties such as the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Law 25,632), establishes itself as responsible before the international community regarding the horrifying problem of the advance of complex and economic crime through the fraudulent sale of borderlands.
Thus, let us hope that the omen of Pope Francis does not come true when he asks himself: Could it be that we Argentines are orphans of a homeland?
To which I wonder;
Could it be that corruption and public looting of our goods and lands have ceased to surprise us?
As if we've gotten used to the anomie of law and order.
Roberto Durrieu is a Doctor of Law.
