The case that investigates the 45 contracts of various State organizations with Nación Seguros and the participation of intermediaries, has another link under scrutiny:
two cooperatives
that according to federal judge Julián Ercolini could have been used “to
channel funds obtained as a result of the maneuver investigated
”, that is: the money from the commissions paid by the State. These cooperatives are linked to the company
San Ignacio Sociedad de Productos,
which was hired by ANSES and in turn has links with former officials of Nación Seguros.
The researchers drew a first line by putting the magnifying glass on decree 823/2021, with which the then president Alberto Fernández forced the exclusive contracting of Nación Seguros by the State and enabled a second part of the maneuver under analysis:
the participation of brokers, intermediaries.
This would have given rise to a large part of those contracts “with the participation of intermediaries and organizers, both natural and legal persons, among whom are, among others, Héctor Martínez Sosa, Pablo Torres García and Oscar Castellón, as well as the firms Héctor Martínez Sosa and CIA SA, TG Broker, Bachellier, Castello Mercuri and San Ignacio Society of Insurance Producers.
According to the court case, these companies “were paid commissions that, according to what was reported,
would be higher than the market rates
or would have been designated by the respective public departments.”
The State paid a total of 3,213,341,098 pesos in commissions
. As some of these contracts remained in force after the arrival of Javier Milei to the Government, the payment figure updated until the report was closed reaches 3,453,302,777 pesos. At the exchange rate of each year, the global figure amounts to
about 17 million dollars.
The mystery of cooperatives
In the analysis of the circuit of these payments, Judge Ercolini appears two cooperatives. Justice is studying
whether they were used to collect commissions
and their alleged links with former officials of Nación Seguros. But in addition, they are related to San Ignacio Society of Insurance Advisory Producers, which was hired by ANSES.
This company is fourth in the ranking of the companies that received the most money from State organizations in commissions.
It must be remembered that of the 25 brokers that received money from the State, five charged a total of 2,782,170,946 pesos:
80.56% of the commissions paid.
“All information is being swept away about those people, both physical and legal, about whom suspicions arose based on some particularities in the presentation of their documentation and other circumstances,” judicial sources explained to
Clarín.
At this point, Judge Ercolini referred to
“irregular circumstances”
at the time of receiving the documentation required from
San Ignacio Sociedad de Producers
. Together with
TG Broker
, they acted as intermediaries in the insurance contracted to Nación Seguros by ANSES, which was the starting point of the judicial file.
According to the Nación Seguros audit released by
Clarín,
between 2020 and 2024 ANSES was the second public body that paid the most money to intermediaries for commissions, after the National Gendarmerie: it was
463,837,349 pesos.
The authorities of San Ignacio Society of Producers are Brian Kelly (president) and Hernán Bressi (alternate director). The first thing that the judge in the case pointed out is that when the presentation orders were filed, the addresses declared by the company were not found.
The second event described as irregular was the delivery of two boxes with documentation by Kelly and his lawyer Emanuel Nagel. The latter would have previously received those boxes "in a garage, from the hands of Carlos Suárez and Alfredo del Corro", and the documentation was taken to the garage "by a vehicle whose owner would have some degree of kinship with Mariana Lourdes Trupia, from corporate and couple ties with Del Corro.”
The first point of contact between these names is that Del Corro was part of two firms in which
Marcos Eufemia, who works as Purchasing Manager of Nación Seguros,
participated . Investigating these links further, the researchers drew another line: Del Corro and Trupia have authorizations to drive a series of high-end automobiles that belong to
two cooperatives: 7 de Mayo and Cooperativa Irigoyen.
From this information, other authorizations were detected on those same vehicles or on others from the same cooperatives, and which were granted, among other people,
to Mauro Tanos,
former director of Nación Seguros.
What the court maintains is that, as General Manager of Nación Seguros,
Tanos “acted as a contact with the San Ignacio Society of Producers.”
This is where cooperatives come into play. The existence of high-end vehicles under their ownership “that would be used by the alleged members of the organization” under investigation, together with the “negative result of the raids carried out at their respective homes,” are indications for Judge Ercolini that “
7 May "Work Cooperative and Cooperativa Irigoin, could have been used to channel funds obtained as a result of the investigated maneuver
," that is, from the commissions paid by the State.
On the other hand, from reading the Nación Seguros policies provided by ANSES “the intermediation of San Ignacio Sociedad de Producers and TG Broker as organizer and producer is recorded.” Another piece was added to this puzzle: simultaneously, these two companies have the intervention of the firm San Germán Seguros among their co-insurers.
One fact is added, and that is that the ANSES insurance policies in Nación Seguros show that after the inclusion of San Ignacio Sociedad de Productos and TG Broker as intermediaries, “the percentage of participation of San Germán Seguros as co-insurer of the "They show a notable increase,
tripling from 5 to 15% in existing ones
(policies no. 9081 and 9142) and
reaching 25% in new ones
(policy no. 9154)."
As a result of this scheme formed based on the documentation obtained during the first operations, progress was made in a new batch of presentation orders addressed to the National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy (INAES), so that within 72 hours, it can send in relation to May 7th Work Cooperative and the Irigoin Work Cooperative, all its files, authorities and representatives as well as employees, all balance sheets presented, bank accounts reported and list of people authorized to operate them.
The court also consulted whether Suspicious Transaction Reports (ROS) were registered in relation to said cooperatives; all this from 2019 onwards.
In relation to these two cooperatives, the AFIP was also asked to send Comodoro Py all the declared billing corresponding to the period 2019 to date.
Regarding the five main companies that received more than 80% of the commissions paid by the State, the General Inspection of Justice (IGJ) was also required to all the files, minutes of incorporation, records of shareholders and authorities (with a copy of the minutes relevant).
The request is about Bachellier, Héctor Martínez Sosa and CIA, Castello Mercuri SA, San Ignacio Sociedad de Seguros, TG Broker.
But the request was expanded to six other companies, including San Germán Seguros, which could be a link between two of the five companies that received the most money in commissions.