Hours after being charged in the case investigating the insurance scandal that Clarín revealed this Sunday, Alberto Fernández came out this Thursday to defend himself.
"I have not stolen anything and I have not participated in any negotiation or authorizing any negotiation. And this is not a negotiation," said the former president about the plot of intermediaries - among them Héctor Martínez Sosa, his friend and husband of his historical secretary. who collected million-dollar commissions on life policies from official organizations
Fernández accepted the accusation of prosecutor Ramiro González.
"It seems reasonable to me, the concept of imputation is that it be investigated," he explained as if it were one of his Law classes.
But he once again launched one of the personal assessments that have become his slogan.
"I make a cult of honesty. I know that I am a public man and I am speaking to explain it to people," said Fernández, in dialogue with La Red radio.
The former president usually boasts of - until now - not having been involved in corruption cases, a differentiation that has had repercussions as an attempt to contrast himself with Cristina Kirchner.
"They are affecting many good people," he clarified about the names that emerged as beneficiaries.
María Cantero's husband, her secretary, for example, would have managed ANSeS policies with Nación Seguros for more than 20 billion pesos.
"Do not ask me about Martínez Sosa because I have never talked to him about his insurance in my life," the former president responded about the broker who, it was learned, visited him at Quinta de Olivos and shared parties with the manager.
"He knows me, he knows that if he had asked me something like that I would say 'Héctor, you can't ask me this and that's it,'" he added. This Wednesday, he had not been so blunt in that defense with his secretary, Martínez's wife. Bland.
News in development.
D.S.