The day he toured the Riccheri, hours before embarking with a model on the
Bandido
yacht and jumping into the void of his political decline, Martín Insaurralde had a driver take him to Ezeiza in a van from the municipality of Lomas de Zamora, where he was on leave for being Kicillof's chief of staff.
It is a
tiny detail
in the accumulation of evidence of corruption against him that has just been released by the prosecutors investigating him, but it shows the degree of impunity of the average official who embodies the monarchical fantasy of Louis XIV:
L'État, c'est moi
(I am the state).
The biggest piece of information from the ongoing judicial investigation is that Insaurralde spent
more than $120,000 on trips
for two years while earning $1,800 a month, with no other declared income.
The numbers do not close
.
Just renting the
Bandido
in Marbella cost him 13,716 euros, about $15,000.
For that walk of just eight hours, Insaurralde had to invest eight and a half months of his salary as a public official.
Video
The model uploaded stories with Martín Insaurralde to Instagram and then deleted them.
Here begins an interesting dance of company names, foreign credit cards and other tools intended to
hide Insaurralde
, plus other information about contracting companies from Lomas that were
extraordinarily generous
with the mayor who gave them the works: they gave him - at least - an imported truck, a house in a country and an apartment in Puerto Madero.
The volume and ramifications of this true
economic orgy
led prosecutors Diego Velasco and Diego Mola to request this week an extension of the test with requests for information from Switzerland, the United States and Spain.
It is to try to clarify
“the interposition of legal and human persons to disguise the illicit origin of the funds.”
The prosecutors' hypothesis far exceeds the theory of hedonistic pleasure of the
model-yacht-champagne
combo : they believe that Insaurralde
was laundering dirty money.
Governor Kicillof - who has now turned to the Court to ask the Nation for more sending of public funds - said three curious things about his former chief of staff: that he found out about the scandal through social networks, that his function is not to
"spy on the officials, like Macri"
(a clumsiness in weakness) and, finally, that Insaurralde -imposed by Máximo Kirchner-
"is part of the Union for the Homeland coalition...
it is not the government of Axel Kicillof
. "
AHA.
Regarding the
Chocolate
trout card scandal , he said that
“it is a matter of the legislative power
. ”
If the legislature is not his problem and neither is the executive, because it would not be his but
“a coalition”
…, what would be Kicillof's problem?
Perhaps, that Insaurralde continues in its "new" management through the legal director of the Provincial Lottery - gambling is the former official's strong field -, the Buenos Aires court of accounts and the Minister of the Environment, wife of the mayor of Lomas, Insaurralde dolphin.
And he is also in the Legislature with the presidency of Alejandro Dichiara in Deputies, just when the
Chocolate
case is moving forward looking for those responsible
upwards
.
Kicillof cannot assure that the money that prosecutors believe Insaurralde laundered was not from any of his boxes.
And he knows perfectly well that the Legislature and its political bosses
are not watertight compartments
.
Just in case, the lawyer Maximiliano Rusconi has just entered the
Chocolate
case - as defender of the leaders of Sergio Massa, Facundo and Claudio Albini - who defended Lázaro Báez, Julio De Vido and Diego Lagomarsino for the Nisman crime.
The coalition to which Kicillof belongs is worried.
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