The federal prosecutor Ramiro González
charged former president Alberto Fernández
, the former head of Nación Seguros SA, Alberto Pagliano, and Héctor Martínez Sosa accused of the alleged crime of
embezzlement of funds
with respect to the suspected transactions in Anses with the contracting of insurance for the retirees who took out loans and the million-dollar commissions that were paid to nearby intermediaries.
The case initiated by the prosecutor is as a result of the complaint filed by lawyer Silvina Martínez.
The Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating the alleged embezzlement of public funds, together with the former official - and Fernández's close confidant - Alberto Pagliano, former head of Nación Seguros.
He also accuses them of violation of the duties of a public official and abuse of authority.
The prosecution put the magnifying glass on the regulations that imposed the obligation on the State Public Sector to contract insurance services exclusively with the public company “Nación Seguros SA”.
In that sense, as stated in the complaint that gave rise to the judicial file, it was exposed that the plot of “opaque” contracting revealed through a publication in the Clarín newspaper, where it was stated that “Nación Seguros” subcontracted an intermediary in the case of ANSES insurance, which benefited from a 17% commission, that is, three times higher than the market.
Earnings from commissions would have been estimated at 300 million pesos per month and twenty billion pesos annually.
The information revealed maintains that Pablo Torres García (ANSES) and Héctor Martínez Sosa (husband of Alberto Fernández's Secretary, María Cantero) would have been the “beneficiaries or intermediaries of said contracts, that is, those who would have obtained significant sums of money from the businesses undertaken with the support of the aforementioned Decree.”
Given the information contained in the criminal complaint, prosecutor Ramiro González considered that there are sufficient elements to begin the investigation and charge those responsible for the maneuver, including former president Alberto Fernández.
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