When Fabián Gutiérrez started working as Cristina Kirchner's secretary, he had a used car and still lived in his parents' house. When he quit that job, he had
36 houses, two hotels, 35 luxury cars and three boats.
After leaving the position that made him a millionaire, Gutiérrez declared himself repentant (2018) in the case of the bribery notebooks.
The following year he was prosecuted for money laundering and eight months after that he was
savagely murdered
in El Calafate by a group of young people who lived in that city and presumably went to rob him.
The hypothesis of the young thieves without accomplices or instigators was closed
without further questions
during the investigation.
And it came to the oral trial that began last week in that town of Santa Cruz. The prosecutor of the investigation had been Natalia Mercado, daughter of Alicia Kirchner and niece of Cristina.
Although during the investigation there were mysterious data about inexplicable situations, the case seems to be moving towards a conviction against the three accused that will be announced next Friday, April 5.
However, the verdict
will not answer all the questions
that remain open.
To begin with, at the crime scene, traces of a fourth person who
was never identified
were found . There is an
anonymous murderer
of Cristina's secretary.
There are also suspicions about
more people
moving Gutiérrez's body from his house, where he was attacked, to another home where he appeared half-buried.
Were those unidentified people there before Gutiérrez died? After? In parallel? Who were they?
What kind of thieves take the victim's body somewhere else after a common assault? Why would they do it?
Gutiérrez weighed 90 kilos. He received
blows to his arms, hands, torso, head and face, cuts of different lengths, a broken thumb and five stab wounds to his neck
. However, he was
strangled to death
.
This unbridled cruelty shows
atrocious torture
.
His killers were looking for crucial information. Cash money? Hiding places? Keys? If there was
revenge
for his declaration of repentance against Cristina, justice never sought any of that.
The whole event seems
too much
to be planned and executed just by three thieves under 20 years old.
While Gutiérrez was attacked in his house, a RAM truck was waiting in a neighboring vacant lot. He left there after the crime. Was someone monitoring the situation from the outside?
There may have been key data on the victim's phone, but
it was inaccessible.
Gutiérrez's cell phone arrived at the Gendarmerie headquarters, in Buenos Aires, with the envelope
“broken at the bottom
. ”
The conclusion is that they broke it, took out the cell phone, made it useless and put it back in. Its content
was never known.
However, this week a witness to the complaint - Gutiérrez's family - testified at the trial that he
had the password
to the victim's
iPhone
and that was why they were able to find the device through the cloud.
This key is used, in addition to tracking the cell phone, to
access its content.
And why didn't he say it before? During the investigation of the case, that witness, named Diego Infante,
had never been summoned
.
Now he said in the oral trial that he notified the Police that he knew the password to Gutiérrez's phone and they never called him.
He told it to a deputy inspector officer from Río Gallegos.
The Santa Cruz Police, which reported to Governor Alicia Kirchner,
hid the information for four years
.
That officer was supposed to testify at the trial this week, but she passed a
“psychiatric folder”
justification to avoid appearing.
The revelation was
a scandal
that led defense lawyers to denounce
concealment of evidence
and request that everything be annulled.
The complaint is represented by Gutiérrez's mother and sister, still being prosecuted for helping Cristina's secretary launder money, with them - and other relatives - appearing as owners of properties and cars that actually belonged to Gutiérrez, who in turn - according to rulings of Comodoro Py's justice - would have been a front man for the Kirchners.
Everything is a delicate game of Russian dolls where there would still be more hidden pieces than visible.
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