The now uncovered business of insurance brokers is very reminiscent of that of the Cuadernos:
complicity of politicians and businessmen
, a successful Argentine formula for some to come forward at the cost of some judicial inconvenience.
Not too much.
It is not taught in business schools: the teaching is secretly given here.
But it's not a secret at all.
You have to join a political party and, as with universities, you always know which one is best.
Let's review.
That's it, for those who want to see it, it's very clear what was happening.
And what still happens: the corruption that occurred in the Anses contract with Nación Seguros
is repeated in many areas of the State
.
Agreements between public organizations with a broker in the middle with no other mission than to make
a bribe possible.
Details are jumping out.
There is already a judge, Julián Ercolini, who takes his work seriously.
He quickly raided the headquarters and homes of brokers and companies, and gathered and gathers evidence and documentation of the fraud.
The contract was signed by two men from Massa in Anses and Alberto Fernández's brigade in Nación Seguros, which
they called Fernández Seguros
.
From now on, Fernández Seguros also for us.
Almost everyone in that brigade was fired or kicked out.
President Pagliano, who they say said: “Everything here is armed to steal”;
his associate Gregorini;
the assistant manager Soria, who had arrived from Sancor and they say that he knows about insurance traps like few others and, underneath, a network of managers.
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Five directors also had to leave their offices in a hurry, including a heavyweight, Argibay, who used to travel on the private plane of Andrés Peralta, Pablo's brother, owner of Orígenes and a close friend of Fernández.
We tell it because
Orígenes is one of the insurers with which Fernández Seguros
outsourced policies, such as those for Anses retirees.
Fernández Seguros should be given more than a pool cleaner, like the swimming pools.
It will be seen if the new bosses, who are studying whether to get involved as plaintiffs in the trial, do it.
Fernández Seguros curiously was able to dribble around
Milei's list of companies to privatize
.
It is not the only omission that draws attention, that becomes suspicious, ominous, because we come from where we come from and for so long.
But let's continue with the story.
One more tidbit first: to those multimillionaire flights, Argibay and Peralta invited Pablo Torres García, the broker they brought in between Anses and Fernández Seguros.
Torres García is probably the biggest broker after Héctor Martínez Sosa, Fernández's friend/partner, married to the former president's secretary.
Torres García is an old acquaintance of Massa but especially of people from the Pro and Nicky Caputo: he was the
City's broker until Macri fired him
in 2016. With Caputo they say that Torres García still shares businesses, such as those of Cerro Bayo , in La Angostura.
He even secures Mirgor, Caputo's company in Tierra del Fuego.
With Fernández we had a president with years of experience in the field.
He had been Insurance Superintendent for years.
And with a delicate and very studied decree, he knew well what to do: he said that the assets of the State had to be protected and forced all organizations to hire Fernández Seguros.
The country is not for sale, they say, but businesses are.
In parallel, from La Rosada, and also out of pure patriotism, his secretary Ana María Cantero (that is, he himself) called heads of public companies to hire her husband, Martínez Sosa.
Choose the word you want to describe that.
The concrete thing:
Fernández president was a lobbyist for Martínez Sosa as he had previously been for Cristóbal López.
And although he spoke many times about what he didn't know, about insurance, which he knows, he doesn't talk.
Brokers have a reason for being in the private sector but when they come to the State it is to allow business.
There are plenty of cases, and everywhere.
They say that in Fernández Seguros more than 30% of state insurance companies have brokers.
This story of what happened (and perhaps continues to happen) with Anses is a rather small but multi-million dollar part of a mega-million dollar story.
Reinsurance in dollars abroad is at the top.
Here, another monthly part of the policy is risk insurance, which Provincia ART concentrates, because Fernández Seguros does not provide it.
In Fernández Seguros, the broker is provided by the bank.
In Provincia ART, the company that hires.
Provincia/ART has more than 50 thousand clients and its main sales force is the Provincia bank.
Who follows in volume?
You guessed: Martínez Sosa, Fernández's favorite broker.
Then come others like Net Broker and Gaman.
Surprises that are not surprising: in recent times the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Mint
suddenly asked to include a broker in the contract, without giving any reason
.
Maybe it wasn't necessary: it's what we all assume.
And more surprise: once Milei was in government, Correo Argentino joined.
Data or data perhaps for Ercolini or for some other judge.
The person who could reveal these secrets is Miriam Clerici, president of Provincia ART until 2020. Also why the State pays more or much more for these insurances.
Example: private banks pay a rate of 0.5%.
The Ministry of Defense, for its civilian employees, 1.7%.
Three more times.
An almost obscene case is that of Yacimientos Río Turbio, which lives off official subsidies and nevertheless pays the highest ART to Experta ART, from the Werthein family, one of the economic groups most benefited by Kirchnerism.
It fits the occasion perfectly: in the Pact that he proposes to the governors, especially among the famous 10 points, the president lacked a specific mention of corruption.
He could well have said:
no more corruption, damn it.
And repeat it three times.