Investigated by Justice for the scandal involving insurance deals for official organizations, former President Alberto Fernández will leave this Sunday for Mexico where he plans to give a series of talks at educational institutions, as confirmed by those around him.
Fernández's trip comes after the accusation in court for embezzlement of public funds after Clarín revealed a million-dollar business involving intermediaries enabled by a presidential decree that the former president signed in 2021.
Those around the former president maintain that it was planned beforehand and that it would include a stop in Princeton and that he would then return to Spain for Easter.
Fabiola Yáñez and her son Francisco are still in that country.
The former president decided to settle there after leaving the government.
The case for the negotiations begins to move.
The judge in charge is Julián Ercolini and the prosecutor is Ramiro González,
who was the one who charged Fernández and asked him for a series of evidentiary measures that include data and documents from Anses and other State agencies.
The maneuver under suspicion began in 2021 when the former president signed a decree that forced state agencies to contract Nación Seguros, a company that depends on Banco Nación.
In the middle, a series of brokers appeared, hired by Nación Seguros, who acted as intermediaries and charged a 17% commission for management, well above market percentages.
Earnings from commissions would have been estimated at 300 million pesos per month and $20,000 million annually.
An advertising billboard on Lugones Avenue for Héctor Martínez Sosa, insurance broker and friend of former president Alberto Fernández.
Photo Juano Tesone.
One of the brokers was Héctor Martínez Sosa, husband of Fernández's private secretary, María Cantero.
The former president tried to separate himself from Martínez Sosa, saying that he never discussed the insurance issue with him and hinted that his secretary could have overstepped her bounds.
He used the same strategy as with the party in Olivos during the pandemic when he blamed his partner Fabiola Yáñez.
The truth is that Martínez Sosa had private meetings with the former president.
According to the official records of admissions to the Quinta de Olivos, he entered the residence for the first time 20 days after Fernández took office.
And even he did it in May 2020, in the middle of the pandemic and when meetings were prohibited.
Martínez Sosa was not essential personnel to be there.