As the trial in the Cuadernos case progressed and witnesses and other defendants prepared to testify, details of the operations carried out to defraud the state and launder money coming from public works became known. However, the lawyer for one of the network’s main actors, who today participates in the case as repentant, admitted on Saturday that the chain of actors involved could be greater than Justice was able to calculate: “The amount of money they handled was a lot.”
victor manzanares, The accountant, who worked for years as a secretary on such assignments for the Kirchners in Santa Cruz, is preparing to testify in the Quadernos case. Since the trial is still in the reading and presentation phase of the investigation, the role of Manzanares has not yet come, who is considered a key element in the maneuvers to defraud the state and money laundering of which Cristina Kirchner, among others, is suspected and accused. The latter confirmed in early November that its former accountant, who is participating in the case as a repentant person, had been subjected to “blackmail” or “direct torture,” which he later denied.
But Manzanares’ lawyer this Saturday, roberto herrera, Confirm it “What justice knows today is only part of the systematic plunder.” On the other hand, he said in an interview with Radio Rivadavia that although the investigation will determine the chain of responsibility, the Kirchner family’s involvement in the criminal network cannot be denied.
According to Herrera, his client explained to the court that the mechanism he reported was as follows: Daniel Muñoz, private secretary of Nestor Kirchner, traveled every Friday to Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, with suitcases and suitcases full of money (the exact source of which he seeks to establish, although it is supposed to be from the public treasury) resulting from bribes collected in the framework of public works grants.
“Manzanares was going to look for Muñoz at the airport. And from there They took the suitcases to Nestor Kirchner’s parents’ house. Only Muñoz entered, and after an hour he came out with his bag (Manzanares). Two or three million dollarsThe repentant former accountant’s lawyer explained today.
Moreover, according to the lawyer, the rest of the money (i.e. the majority of what was transferred) always remained in the Kirchner family home; While what was delivered to Manzanares was for his entry into the legal financial system (“white circle”Through different washing mechanisms, Herrera said. Between two and three million dollars a week. “And this is just from Daniel Muñoz,” he explains.
For more details, he added how his client brought this money into the legal financial system: “Through companies, companies and associations, Purchased real estate…For example, the company San-Up, for spraysWhich was not within the orbit of justice. A French company that Muñoz’s father bought for $34 million. Manzanares, as if repentant, provided documents about this and other maneuvers.”
“There are certainly more presidents who are off the radar of justice. certainly. It is impossible that it does not exist, because The amount of money they handled was a lot. Manzanares knows the money that changed hands through him in Rio Gallegos…but the properties purchased in the United States were not managed by Manzanares, nor were those in Buenos Aires. In this situation, many people will be excluded, without justice knowing who they are,” confirmed the lawyer for the former accountant of the Kirchners.
Manzanares is low grown from the Río GallegosNow away from the accounting profession. He is part of the list of witnesses who will be called to testify in the Quadernos case trial. As a penitent man, his confession was one of the most important and relevant. In mid-2017, when Marcos Paz began his path in prison, he struggled with being away from his family, and anger grew inside him when neither Cristina nor Máximo Kirchner offered him help while he remained behind bars.
Take it More than six months ago it was decided to announce As an accused collaborator. Before that, he sent a letter to prosecutor Carlos Stornelli telling him that if he ever took the step of repentance, he would do so before him. “I saw in him true repentance, practically spirituality, and then a tremendous mind and memory, account numbers, CUIT, money movement, and a level of detail rarely seen.” Clarion Prosecutor.
But now, as Cristina Kirchner asserts that the repentants in this case, who may implicate her decisively in the criminal network of the Cuadernos case, were blackmailed into testifying against her, the lawyer of one of those repentants is setting the record straight: his client is just one of many accused, although justice has not identified them all.