For the Government it is a "black box" of politics.
That is,
a job
.
For others, however, it is a financial tool fed with billions of pesos from the state to improve the lives of the most disadvantaged sectors.
Whoever is right, the President almost cut the controversy short:
this Saturday the definancing of the Urban Social Investment Fund (FISU) was published in the Official Gazette
.
Sebastián Pareja is the new head of the Trust Fund that Grabois managed.
Javier Milei cut the trust.
Until now, the FISU received, in a daily trickle, 9% of the total collection of the Country Tax.
In the new financing scheme ordered by the Government, 1% will be paid.
Does this involve an elimination of the trust?
Not at all.
Apparently the teeth of the chainsaw were not that sharp.
Even with the significant cut in funding, the money that FISU will still receive is astronomical.
The libertarian head of the Secretariat of Urban Social Investment (SISU), Sebastián Pareja,
explains it to
Clarín .
"This year we will manage approximately
$30,000 million,
of the $350,000 that the Fund counted last year," explains Pareja, who about ten days ago took leave as a Buenos Aires Senator from LLA to take over as undersecretary of the SISU.
The head of the organization is Héctor Lostri.
The decision to cut FISU's funding, as Clarín advanced, was Luis Caputo's.
The Minister of Finance did so after ensuring that the "Grabois trust" came under his orbit.
During the fourth Kirchnerist government, the agency reported to Acción Social.
In those years, the fights in Alberto Fernández's government to control the US$ 1,244 million that the former head of FISU herself, the piquetero Fernanda Miño, admitted spending from 2020 to 2023 were as
arduous as they were public .
With mobilizations and statements in the media,
Grabois always sought to condition the three Ministers of Social Action that he had under Alberto Fernández:
Daniel Arroyo, Juanchi Zabaleta and, not to mention, Victoria Tolosa Paz.
Miño is a Kirchnerist militant who does nothing without consulting her boss, Juan Grabois.
The Pope's friend is the one who put her in charge of SISU.
In addition, she agreed with Máximo Kirchner to form the FISU,
a trust whose funds were and continue to be managed by BIFISA, a type of state bank managed by La Cámpora through the senator from Mendoza, Anabel Fernández Sagasti.
Even if you want to ignore it, everyone in the SISU knows that Grabois managed the FISU trust.
Is FISU a job?
Everything seems so.
Not so much because of the works that were not done but because of
the overbilling
that would have occurred.
Pareja himself admits to
Clarín
that the
"financial audit can be colored pieces of paper
. "
He refers to the fact that the certifications and invoices for the works that were carried out actually exist.
That's what Grabois and Miño use to talk about a media "operation."
A story repeated among some militant journalists like Pablo Duggan.
Also others, who although they are not militants, do walk around with a strange GPS that invents a new country between North and South Korea.
These certifications and invoices for the works assume that "they were controlled."
They weren't.
The couple themselves "does not rule out" that what was paid for these works could have been much more than what they really cost.
Grabois and Miño (also Pareja himself) publicly stated that the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank)
did not see irregularities in the "administrative and operational process"
of the projects that were financed with the FISU.
What several who know the FISU financing mechanism very well do not doubt is that there were
"scandalous overcharges."
"To identify whether or not there was cheating in the payment of the works, a serious and exhaustive work must be done on each invoice that the Grabois militants themselves made. Please do not publish what I am sending you but there are projects that at first glance are "They paid a lot more than what they really cost,"
an SISU official who was there throughout Miño's administration
tells Clarín
.
"Today, in the FISU there are about $150,000 million. During 2023 there were about 1,067 projects planned.
They left us about 435 unfinished
, which we are going to do. To finish them we need about $200,000," says Pareja.
When asked if the FISU is "a black box for caste nonsense."
Couple gets uncomfortable.
But he inflates his chest, taking as much air as he can and answers:
"I don't know. I still have to audit many works.
And, as you published, I can't get carried away by the papers but rather we have to see the amounts that those papers say to know if there were surcharges. The same with the 4x4 trucks that were supposedly rented during the last 4 years, which if confirmed, would be nonsense. The same with the travel expenses that were apparently paid to those who were doing territory, that is, they were going to visit the works. On Monday I will join Fernanda Miño and we will clarify several issues."