The text and audio messages that were extracted from
José López's cell phone,
exposed during the allegations of prosecutor Diego Luciani, led to a criminal complaint filed by the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office, who requested that
Máximo Kirchner
, Santa Cruz officials, businessmen
Nicolás Caputo
and
Fabián De Sousa
, like other companies, are investigated for possible influence peddling or incompatible negotiations.
Two days after appealing the conviction against Cristina Kirchner in the Highway case to claim that the vice is also accused of directing an illegal association, Luciani filed a criminal complaint.
The presentation, to which
Clarín
agreed , maintains that the cell phone communications of the former Secretary of Public Works show the "existence of
different facts and irregularities that deserve to be investigated in depth
. "
"The existence of a large number of communications with different people –both officials and individuals–" is noted, "which" hint at the existence of
certain patterns in relation to the way in which López performed his duties
as Secretary of Public Works, and the relations that he had with certain businessmen in the sector and with other officials," Luciani said in the complaint.
The questioned conversations refer to "
how the tenders were processed, how payments to 'friendly' businessmen were managed
", among other irregularities recorded.
The prosecutor asked that
Nicolás Caputo, the businessman closest to Mauricio Macri
, "who benefited from these mechanisms," be investigated, exposed in various messages requesting "differentiated treatment to guarantee payments."
The list of the seven events detailed in the complaint includes
Fabián De Sousa
, a partner of
Cristóbal López.
For this reason, the prosecution suspects the existence of certain patterns in the exercise of public functions "that exhibited their lack of adherence to the principles that should govern public procurement and State relations (of its officials) with contractor companies within the framework of the execution of the respective contracts".
These behaviors, Luciani continues explaining, "in addition to being contrary to public ethics and exhibiting
promiscuous relationships between officials and individuals,
they alert to the possible commission of crimes of public action that must be investigated in depth."
In Spanish:
possible bribes
to oil those procedures.
Among the detailed cases, the prosecutor's office referred to López's consultation with Máximo Kirchner -who at that time did not hold any position- to ask him where the hundred blocks of pavement whose contract ended up in the hands of Lázaro Báez should be located.
For the prosecutor, these messages meant
a "clear intervention"
in that and other works aimed at the province.
The denounced
modus operandi
includes another work carried out on Santa Cruz soil:
the Río Gallegos Maternal and Child Hospital"
, where, according to the messages, Cristina Kirchner "had a particular interest".
That work exposed "a brutal collusion between officials and businessmen and how illegal acts were committed," said Luciani.
José López asked to speed up the tender: “
take it out without soil studies.
I tell you what to wear
.
Let's urgently get the so-called Lic ”, he claimed.
Later he explained that
he had already spoken with the "Pta"
and had notified him that the bidding would be done in 15 days.
"The president was personally learning about the progress of the works in Santa Cruz," said Luciani, giving more examples showing that "the former president asked about specific works and their progress."
For this reason, the prosecution understands that Máximo Kirchner must be investigated.
Messages to Máximo Kirchner
Regarding the leader of La Cámpora, prosecutor Luciani selected messages referring to the last tender that the Báez holding company won on Santa Cruz soil, a year before the change of government.
"
They had to hurry to address the contract and quickly pay everything
, the presidential elections were approaching," he said.
It was a plan for 100 blocks of pavement in Río Gallegos, financed with national funds that demanded a disbursement of 87 million pesos, "but it had
an advance of 27% and like other works, it was abandoned,
it never cared the works but directing funds in favor of Báez”, as determined by the prosecution.
This project to pave 100 blocks, "despite the vice president's repeated argument that everything was endorsed by the budget laws,
never passed through Congress
."
In the first of the screenshots shared by Luciani in his plea, José López, then Secretary of Public Works, communicates with Máximo Kirchner's friend and provincial deputy, Matías Bezi, asking him if "he had spoken with Maxi and if he
had
decided what would be the location of the 100 blocks”.
The answer was: "Yes, we'll define something" and he said that Roberto was going to meet.
The prosecution indicated that she was referring to Roberto Gómez, a person who worked for Austral Construcciones and was responsible for designing the 100-block paving work.
Gómez was the architect of the Mausoleum that Lázaro Báez gave to the Kirchner family, where the remains of the former president rest.
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