They confirm prosecutions and ask to expand the investigation of money deliveries in Cristina Kirchner's apartment – Up Jobs News

The Federal Chamber confirmed today the prosecutions for having received alleged bribes from Robert Barata, of two other former officials of the Ministry of Planning and three businessmen in a section of the case of the bribery notebooks which has not yet been brought to trial.

According to the ruling, to which he agreed THE NATIONas the deliveries of money to Daniel Munoz -former private secretary of Néstor Kirchner- at 1306 Uruguay Street, home of Cristina Kirchner, the judges suggested, in a line that seems to allude to the vice president, that “it would remain to assess the possible responsibility in this act [una serie de entregas en el departamento de Juncal y Uruguay] of the other co-defendants”.

For these alleged bribes in the case of the bribery notebooks, Cristina Kirchner was not investigated. She is prosecuted and brought to trial, instead, for other facts in this same file, which include other alleged deliveries of bags with pesos and dollars in her Recoleta apartment.

The ruling was signed by the chamberlains Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzziwhich confirmed the extension of the prosecutions that the first instance judge had ordered Julian Ercolini last February.

Oscar Centeno, Baratta’s driver, described in his notes how much of the money collected by his boss and his collaborators was later delivered to Muñoz in the department of Uruguay and Juncal. The late judge Claudio Bonadio considered these deliveries proven when he issued the first indictments in the case. He said there had been at least 87.

In that ruling it was detailed that those who declared valuable information about the deliveries in the Kirchner apartment were the former head of the Occovi Claudio Uberti and the financier Ernesto Clarens. According to what Bonadio said when she took the case to trial, in September 2019, Cristina Kirchner is suspected of having collected bribes and of having set up the structure to make money illegally obtained from businessmen.

With today’s House ruling, the prosecutions of the businessmen were confirmed Hugo Alberto Dragonettifrom the builder Panedile, Alberto Tasselli, power company owner edcat, Y Juan Mauricio Balanof Juan F. Secco Industries, all for the crime of bribery. also from Nelson LazarteBaratta’s former private secretary, and Hernan Camilo Gomez former official of the Ministry of Planning. All of them were investigated in December of last year.

On the role of Baratta, right-hand man of the former Minister of Planning July De Vidothe chamberlains said in the ruling: “Beyond the fact that their position within the administrative organization chart did not formally bring together the various competencies necessary to resolve all the issues that motivated the payments, [Baratta] It occupied a central role within the parallel collection structure and acted as a reference for the Ministry of Planning, with real capacity to internally implement the decisions related to the companies -as evidenced, in a contested manner, by the statements of the businessmen involved-”.

As for Lazarte, the cameramen stated: “He was in charge of receiving and transferring large amounts of money given by businessmen, a task that could only be carried out by someone linked to Baratta by a particular bond of trust. At the same time, his presence at the different events scrutinized made it possible for the funds to later reach his hands”.

On the other hand, the expansion of the processing of Claudio Glazmann, another of the businessmen involved in the notebooks case, because the judges considered that the deliveries of money attributed to him are part of the same maneuver for which he was already brought to trial.

The cause has its origin in the data revealed by Centeno’s annotations that recorded movements of former officials of the Ministry of Planning for almost a decade. The investigation was carried out by THE NATION.

The case reached its peak in August 2018, with an arrest operation that included not only Baratta and his collaborators, but also businessmen from the world of energy and public works. In the months that followed, dozens of defendants declared that they were “repentant” and admitted having made illegal payments to former Planning officials, some as “contributions to politics” and others to receive public works certificates that had already been awarded to them.