An extensive list of insurers that appear in a report that Nación Seguros SA delivered to the federal justice system are under investigation in the case that delves into irregular maneuvers with brokers linked to Alberto Fernández.
Judge Julián Ercolini required, through production orders, that 27 companies hand over the contracts signed with state organizations.
With this measure, investigators seek to determine if there were more companies involved than those already known within the framework of the file in which the former president is the main defendant.
The judicial file focuses on an alleged fraudulent maneuver, which would have generated multimillion-dollar damage to the State, as a result of the regulations that imposed the obligation on the state public sector to contract insurance services exclusively with the public company “Nación Seguros SA.” .
The plot of the suspected hiring, revealed through a publication in the
Clarín
newspaper , exposes that Nación Seguros subcontracted an intermediary in the case of ANSES insurance, who benefited from a 17% commission, which would represent a which triples those on the market.
The intermediary is Héctor Martínez Sosa, husband of Fernández's former secretary.
Earnings from commissions would have been estimated at 300 million pesos per month and
20,000 million pesos annually.
It was within the framework of this file that Judge Ercolini, at the request of prosecutor Ramiro González, asked Nación Seguros SA for a copy of all insurance contracts or agreements concluded between the National State and the jurisdictions and entities that have participated. in the form of coinsurance or reinsurance to other entities authorized to operate in insurance matters.
Among the information received by the federal court were the administrative actions of the contracting entities of the policies that are linked to the appointments of insurance advisory producers (direct or organizers) within the framework of said contracts.
Thus it was that the magistrate obtained a detail of the
list of insurance companies that participated in the assignment of policies in credits granted by ANSES.
The court also requested information on the payroll of the insurance advisory producers (direct or organizers) who participated in the operations.
The investigation, at this specific point, seeks to determine
if more insurers intervened in the alleged fraudulent maneuver.
Until now, along with former President Fernández, Pablo Torres García (ANSES) and Héctor Martínez Sosa (husband of Alberto Fernández's secretary, María Cantero) are accused in the case, who “would have been the beneficiaries or intermediaries of said contracts, that is "who would have obtained significant sums of money from the businesses undertaken with the support of the aforementioned Decree."
Federal justice does not rule out that the number of insurers involved in the maneuver that gave rise to the case may increase since the investigation has emerged - so far - a list of insurance producers that were designated by various state entities to operate. with Nación Seguros SA.
With all the information obtained, the court will advance in the interweaving of the information regarding these contracts, also an analysis of the percentages that were received, the market values and above all, see if there is any type of link between the insurers informed by Nación Seguros SA.
Under investigation is the hypothesis of a "criminal organization within the framework of which an alleged improper intervention of intermediaries - both natural and legal persons - in the insurance agreements concluded between various public administration bodies and entities and the firm Nación Seguros would have been detected. , during the administration of Alberto Pagliano”, it was reported.
New accusation
In a second case, linked to the same events but initiated after the complaint of the current Minister of Human Capital - Sandra Petovello -, the former President added a new accusation.
They also ended up accused by the prosecutor Ramiro González, the former General Director of Operations of the ANSES Sustainability Guarantee Fund, Federico D'Angelo, Alberto Pagliano (former head of Nación Seguros), the head of San Ignacio, a society of insurance advisory producers. SA and the head of TG Broker SA
Javier Milei's management maintains that with the maneuver of hiring intermediaries, "damage was caused to the National State due to commissions, intermediation costs in insurance policies contracted with Nación Seguros SA within the framework of the 'ANSES Credits' operation (Fund of Sustainability Guarantee).
The complaint indicates that "insurance coverage with Nación Seguros using unjustified intermediaries and paying commissions to the detriment of the public treasury."
In this sense, it was suggested that ANSES paid Nación Seguros - as a result of these suspicious maneuvers - between March 2022 and October 2023 almost 10,000 million nominal pesos.
This information arose from a technical report of the new ANSES management, from which it was resolved not to renew the operation duly approved by the aforementioned Inter-administrative Agreement.”