Insurance producer Héctor Martínez Sosa, accused in the case in which he is being investigated for maneuvering with State insurance,
admitted that he has a long-standing relationship with former President Alberto Fernández
, but stated that he never asked him for “his intervention” in any of his business.
On the other hand, Martínez Sosa said that
he made himself available
to Judge Julián Ercolini and prosecutor Carlos Rívolo in the case in which maneuvers with insurance and reinsurance with the State are being investigated, after an investigation by
Clarín.
In a statement Martínez Sosa denied that he had insurance business personally or through his company “with Anses and maintained that “a series of speculations and incorrect and inaccurate statements” were made that caused “serious damage” to his company and his “good name and honor.”
The broker is married to Alberto Fernández's secretary, María Cantero, and
is a creditor of $20,000 in favor of the former head of state "for 15 years."
Justice is investigating Martínez Sosa as an intermediary in the insurance contracts contracted by the Chancellery, the National Gendarmerie, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Mint and the Ministry of Security, among others.
Pablo Torres García, another businessman in the sector linked to Sergio Massa, is being investigated for insurance with Anses.
In 2021, Alberto Fernández issued a decree that requires the State to contract with Nación Seguros, from Banco Nación, for its policies and for the intervention of producers in these contracts.
The former head of Anses, Osvaldo Giordano, calculated that if instead of hiring Nación Seguros the risks were covered through self-insurance (a minimum discount for each retiree who received a loan to insure the risk) he would have saved 40% of the money to pay
Martínez Sosa now stated that he was included in those contracts “erroneously” and that from there “a series of speculations and incorrect and inaccurate statements began.”
In the statement, he added that “as a company I have never and have never requested the former president to intervene in any of our businesses,” he stated and highlighted that his firm “founded 52 years ago has offices in Vicente López, Mar del Plata, Río Gallegos, Tierra del Fuego and in the city of Buenos Aires.”
He said that “thanks to the work and professionalism of more than 80 employees” he advises corporate clients, some 8,000 SMEs and “thousands of individual clients;
“manages risks of state, provincial and municipal structures and organizes more than 1,200 advisory producers who work on different risks.”
He explained that the role of the insurance producer is “a professional whose functions are regulated in Law 22,400, being a key element so that the natural or legal person can have appropriate coverage for a certain risk and even more so if it is companies or public organizations due to the characteristics and complexity they entail.”
“There is no basis for
discrediting the professional contribution of the insurance broker or advisor,
considering it unnecessary or inappropriate.
Insurance professionals are involved in the vast majority of contracts, both nationally and internationally,” concluded the businessman.