In a new twist, the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, agreed with the Anti-Corruption Office
to survey all the causes of corruption that are in the investigation stage
in Comodoro Py, to resume the complaints that Kirchnerism had abandoned. .
Official sources told
Clarín
that they seek to resume participation in the 32 files from which Felix Crous withdrew during the Alberto Fernández government,
among them are Hotesur, Los Sauces, Cuadernos, Odebrecht, YCRT
(Yacimientos Carboniferos Río Turbio).
For the moment, they explained from the Ministry of Justice, no complaint has been taken up by the OA led by
Alejandro Melik
.
But the political decision has been made: after marches and countermarches, the order has now been given to once again assume participation in corruption cases.
The proposal was formulated after
criticism from the opposition regarding an alleged pact of impunity
by Javier Milei's administration in favor of Cristina Kirchner.
To counteract that message, Cúneo Libarona returned to the initial idea: that the OA once again be a plaintiff.
“There is no pact of impunity and corruption is a serious issue that must be combated
,” they said from the portfolio headed by the criminal lawyer.
But, the complaint "will be an exception, not the main activity of the OA," they clarified.
After the failure of the Ministry of Justice's initiative to create an Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, a measure that he rejected as unviable, the Attorney General of the Nation, Cúneo Libarona,
ordered that the OA recomplain in cases of corruption.
For the moment, the measure only affects the anti-corruption body.
It has not yet
been resolved whether the Financial Information Unit (UIF) will follow that same path,
like the AFIP.
During Mauricio Macri's administration, all of these agencies of the Executive Branch took active participation as plaintiffs in more than 40 corruption cases.
At this stage, the OA is conducting a survey on all cases of corruption that are in the investigation stage in Comodoro Py, a jurisdiction that deals with crimes against public administration: illicit enrichment, influence peddling, fraudulent administration, embezzlement. of public funds, embezzlement, among others;
in addition to drug trafficking and money laundering.
Melik was asked to initiate this survey, and then decide which files he will be asked to intervene in.
Cúneo Libarona points to two fronts: on the one hand, the largest cases and secondly, the files from which the previous management in charge of Felix Crous
had withdrawn.
That extensive list included
32 cases, of which 28 had former Kirchnerist officials as accused
, including the former president and vice president.
The remaining events were attributed to the Menemist administration.
For example, the OA dropped the Los Sauces and Hotesur cases, where Cristina Kirchner and her son Máximo, along with Lázaro Báez, are accused of money laundering.
These two files have already been brought to trial, and they were in the same situation when the OA withdrew.
The particularity is that during the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina they had been closed due to a dismissal dictated by the majority vote of a Court that decided
not to hold the trial.
However, last year the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation reversed that criterion and
ordered the reopening and holding of the debate.
Cristina Kirchner went to court to prevent this measure and avoid sitting, once again, in the dock in a corruption case.
These are not the only causes in which the OA would resume the complaint.
There are, for example, the investigations linked to the Brazilian giant
Odebrecht, where irregularities in the awarding of public works contracts and
a bribery circuit
were investigated .
Julio De Vido and José López
are involved
, among other former members of the defunct Ministry of Federal Planning.
The case of the Cuadernos de las Bribes
is also analyzed
.
As this file has already been submitted to oral trial, the only possibility that the OA can enter as a plaintiff is
to request it in the residual sections that remain in the investigation stage
.
It is an issue under analysis, official sources assured.
In this file Cristina Kirchner is the main accused, a structure set up by Federal Planning was investigated to collect
bribes from State contractors in matters of public works, transportation and energy,
essentially.
The crime attributed to the former vice president is that of having directed an illicit association.
In this regard, Cúneo Libarona in statements with Radio Miter
denied "that there is an impunity pact" with Cristina
and reiterated that "the OA will assume the complaints" under the criteria set forth.
A day before, in an interview with TN, President Javier Milei had assured that the plan attributed to protect the former vice president from justice
"does not exist."
In any case, of the 32 cases from which the government of Alberto Fernández withdrew as plaintiff, many have already had their corresponding oral trial, such as the Vialidad case, where the former president was sentenced to six years in prison for fraudulent administration.
The case for illicit enrichment in which José López ended up being accused also concluded.
Like the case where
César Milani
, former head of the Army, is being investigated for
alleged illicit enrichment.
There remain, however, another number of cases that have been brought to oral trial - in whose instructions the OA had participated - that have not yet begun, such as YCRT, where
De Vido was accused of diverting 256 million pesos
, money that was owed Go to the coal mine located in Santa Cruz.
Another of the axes that the Anti-Corruption Office put as a priority is that those who represent the organization in investigations be
criminal lawyers.
For this,
a team is being assembled within the organization
to comply with this requirement.
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