The Government is determined to remove intermediaries from the policies that public organizations contract with Nación Seguros and Provincia ART.
But in the case of
Corredores Viales,
the firm that manages the concessions of national routes,
they seek to disaffect a "broker" detected in an
internal audit: the ruling party argues that they had to extend the agreement for three months - the minimum period allowed. - until the process is completed and the coverage of the users and workers of the firm is not affected.
From the official analyzes carried out, it emerged that
"Bri Brokers"
would be the only agent that intermediated between the agreements signed with Nación Seguros.
It is an insurance company whose
owner is Agustin Beraldi,
who - according to industry sources - knew he was linked to
Aysa
and
La Cámpora.
Malena Galmarini
's entourage
rejected the version, stating that
"a broker" was never hired
while she managed the water services company and that the aforementioned production company was at some point linked to the Sanitary Works union.
But union members
José Luis Lingieri also denied "any relationship"
with Beraldi.
The ruling party explains that there is a practical impediment to resetting coverage immediately: the thousands of motorists who travel the roads daily cannot be left without insurance.
For this reason, Corredores Viales
would have the obligation "to have insurance in force all year round"
as these are essential and critical services "that cannot be interrupted due to the complexity of the type of activity."
In the Chief of Staff, where the firm depends, they recognize that one of the producers that came to light with the scandal with official insurance,
Castello Mercuri
, operated until 2022
, and that the contracts were renewed at the beginning of January by the board of directors of the same because they expired at the end of that month.
The thing is that
Gonzalo Atanasof,
the previous president, had resigned at the beginning of December and the rest of the board was in full transition, which is why the decision was made to extend those contracts for 3 months.
A few days ago,
José Luis Acevedo
took over as head of the company . Between 2020 and 2023, he was president of Autopistas Urbanas SA (AUSA), where he carried out the implementation of the so-called "Free Flow" on Buenos Aires highways.
He is now leading an internal survey with the objective of "
removing intermediaries from the media and ensuring that hiring is done directly."
This company manages 9 corridors that represent 6 thousand of the 7 thousand kilometers of concessioned roads, among which are sections of routes 5, 7, 9 and 34, for example.
Due to the type of business, they explain in the insurance sector,
it represents one of the "most attractive" organizations for "brokers"
due to the number of clients that the dealers have, which expands the amounts of the policies.
As happens in other areas of the State, such as in the maintenance of the
Waterway
for example, in the Executive they clarify that not all companies have the capacity to provide a service, insurance in this case, for this type of company.
According to reports,
it has "three large groups" of policies in force
to cover civil liability on highways for any road accident that may occur, the company's own motor vehicle fleet insurance and coverage of "all operational risks", relative to the operation in the different traces.
All agreements are tied with Nación Seguros.
Within the framework of the file on the possible network with the official insurance that Judge
Julián Ercolini
is investigating , last week a letter arrived at the offices of Corredores Viales that requires the organization to provide documentation related to the issue: agreements and insurance policies contracted, list of insurance advisory producers or intermediaries in the four years that the mandate of
Alberto Fernández,
one of the defendants in the case, lasted.
The court's requests, in fact, have been arriving since Tuesday to different areas of the Executive in search of sensitive information for the advancement of the judicial investigation.