The trips abroad of former mayor K of Lomas de Zamora Martín Insaurralde
are becoming his Achilles heel
in the illicit enrichment case in which he is being investigated along with his girlfriend Sofia Clérici and his ex-wife Jessica Cirio.
In a broad request for
new evidence
, federal prosecutor Sergio Mola confirmed that last year alone, Axel Kicillof's former chief of staff spent “
82 thousand dollars
on his air tickets,” including the expenses of his scandalous trip to Marbella to sail on the yacht "Bandido" with the model Clérici.
Meanwhile, he made those expenses on trips, his monthly income as Buenos Aires chief of staff was
“only about 1,800 dollars”
and therefore
“they do not close his sworn declaration”
of assets in terms of his income and expenses of such standard of living,
a judicial source
told
Clarín .
In a final presentation before federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, prosecutor Mola requested
the sending of warrants to the United States, Switzerland and Spain,
raids, tax valuations and statements from witnesses such as the former deputy director of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) María Eugenia Talerico.
Mola's request is also
supported by the head of the Office of the Attorney General for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (PROCELAC), Diego Velasco.
Once this evidence is confirmed, the prosecutors
will be in a position to request the investigation of Insaurralde
to try to justify the origin of the money with which he paid for these trips and other dark points of his high standard of living.
The report details trip by trip of Insaurralde and its surroundings since 2021, trying to close the traceability of the money with which it was paid and found a stumbling block: part of its air tickets were paid for by
American Express credit cards that “are in the name of the company Forest Travel Agency Inc of Miami and Forest Travel LLC.”
Investigators suspect that they could be
facing the same maneuver seen in the Netflix series Griselda,
which tells the life of Griselda Blanco, considered the “godmother” of the Medellín Cartel.
The drug traffickers used a Miami tourism agency to pay their expenses with third-party credit cards
to identify the origin of the money.
One of the petitions asks the US Justice Department to seek
traceability
of the money with which those tickets that Insaurralde used were paid.
The report specifies that the accommodation of leader K, who managed and continues to have influence in the Lottery and Casino Institute of the province of Buenos Aires, and Clérici on September 16 and 21 of last year at the Marbella Club hotel in Villa Cascabel
cost 27 thousand euros, the rental of the Bandido yacht, 13,176 euros
.
If you add up all of Insaurralde's air tickets last year, including the trip to Marbella, "you reach 82 thousand dollars when he only earned 1,800 dollars per month," explained the judicial source.
Last year, the former national deputy of the Frente de Todos and ally of Cristina and Máximo Kirchner traveled to Spain with his children and four times to Houston, in addition to the trip to Marbella.
He had previously traveled with other parties on a private plane from the Dominican Republic.
But the new measures of evidence also investigate the defendant's habit of
having blue cards to drive third-party cars, houses with strange purchases, and many cash payments
.
That is why he requested the raid of Large Real Estate Enterprises (GEI) and the administration of Fincas de San Vicente-club Chacras, where Insaurralde resided and the lifting
of the banking, fiscal and stock market secrecy of the company Kideza
, dedicated to installing lights in municipalities of the Gran Buenos Aires.
Also, the ownership of an apartment that he occupied in Puerto Madero.
And, in addition, he asked
virtual wallet companies such as Binance, Lemom or Moombird if they record operations of the accused.
In the same way, the call records of the half dozen cell phones that Cirio had and the purchase documents for cars such as a Jeep Compass and an Audi.
But prosecutor Mola also went further back from his operations last year.
He requested
to raid “La Manea Polo Club de Cañuelas”
to find out the costs of the lavish wedding party of Insaurralde and Cirio in November 2014.
And investigate
an office located in the building that houses the Farinelli confectionery, on Arroyo and Suipacha streets, at the request of the president of Poder Ciudadano, Hugo Wortman Jofre, who is a plaintiff in the case
.
The court suspects that an apartment in the same building was occupied by his trusted man and
president of the province's Court of Accounts, Juan Pablo Peredo.
Poder Ciudadano also hopes that the federal chamber of La Plata will endorse Prosecutor Mola's request to investigate
in this same case
the former deputy chief of staff of Insaurralde and former mayor of the Costa party, Juan Pablo De Jesús.
Judge Kreplak wants to send this part of his controversial colleague from Dolores, Martín Bava.
De Jesús shared trips and parties with Insaurralde and also recorded an increase in assets.
But it was not all bad news for Insaurralde in the Lomas de Zamora case.
His lawyers Fernando Pinto and Nicolás Maciel presented documentation to the judge about the apartment that Cirio occupied in 2021 in Miami, valued at $1,700,000, which they claim
is not property of Insaurralde.
They pointed out that it is owned by the limited liability company J and M Twins LLC, which
was established by the North American citizen Doron Corcos
.
“Doron Corcos is an important sales manager for the White and Hodge firm,” they said.
On the other hand, the defenders of the former mayor highlighted the response of the Uruguayan justice system according to which
“there are no movements of funds” by Insaurralde and Cirio
in the banking system of the neighboring country.
Newspaper versions had indicated that there would have been a payment of 20 million dollars for the divorce.
However, the Superintendence of Financial Services of Uruguay recorded “a cash deposit made in 2006 in
an account of ABN AMRO BANK NV, Montevideo Branch” on behalf of Carolina Ileana Álvarez, Insaurralde's first wife
.
“This is a banking transaction that is completely unrelated to the facts of the case and corresponds to money from the ex-wife of our client,” Insaurralde's lawyers stressed.