“Cristina Kirchner gave instructions with the aim of creating a mechanism for the confiscation of illegal money”

This Tuesday a new hearing took place in the trial of Cuadernos de las Bribes, always virtual. Responsible for TOF 7 – composed of judges Enrique Méndez Signori, Fernando Canero and Germán Castelli – they continued with the intervention of the Attorney General Fabiana León reading the allegations and key evidence collected in the department known as La Camarita. In this file on the central case, Cristina Kirchner was blamed for “issued guidelines with the aim of creating a mechanism to recover illicit funds.”

From San José 1111 and again without appearing on camera, the former president heard the allegations against her in this file.

The reading of the altitude requirement during the test indicated the operation of an oiled circuit which was established Collecting bribes in the management of public road works. The allegations reveal a key role played by the business community and those who once benefited from them through illegal donations.

The “small camera” is one of the files related to the central case regarding the bribery notebooks, where More than a hundred bribes received are attributed to Cristina. They were paid for by various businessmen connected to the building chamber he headed. Carlos Wagner.

Since 51 of the 126 people investigated in the Cuadernos case were prosecuted, the section dealing with the circle of bribes collected by the Construction Chamber could be solved following a series of important confessions: that of Wagner and that of the financier Ernesto Clarensthat of the former Minister of Public Works Jose Lopez and a group of businessmen who systematically paid these bribes.

It was discovered that they were paid financial advances to state representatives through Ernesto Clarens, who generally deduct a percentage of the value offered for the workbetween 3% and 20%– or more specific amounts related to Employment references.

It was “confirmed with the necessary degree of this authority that Cristina Kirchner gave instructions with the aim of creating a mechanism to confiscate illegal funds in this area. Mainly by the National Highway Directorate under the leadership of the then Head of Administration, Sergio Hernan Passacantandothe former general manager, Nelson Guillermo Periottiand the then head of road works and services, Sandro Fergolawho turned out to be members of the same criminal group.”

Because justice: Cristina not only had knowledge of the maneuver, but was also the one who gave precise instructions for collecting bribes.

At one point in the hearing, the former president’s primary criminal responsibility was addressed: “Cristina Kirchner was at the top of the schematic pyramid designed to collect the largest amount of money possible, and to do so in this manner.” All links below were made with his permission at some point“.

In this context, it was added that highly relevant agents such as Julio De Vido, Ernesto Clarens and José López “They fulfilled the role that she herself had given themand on the basis of which they had to give instructions in order to obtain input from the company’s managers.”

In return for this mechanism, the former president committed to providing them with vconcrete advantages or discounts in administrative processes that were in process, in such a way that the payments coming from the coffers of the state representatives were financially rewarded.

The hearing examined the mechanisms of bribes, according to which José López made the list of businessmen who paid bribes to privilege them, although this list “was also made with Cristina Fernández,” as Ernesto Clarens confessed on September 3, 2018.

This is how the financier’s statement was reviewed: “In total, this amounts to around the sum of 30 million dollars, He made it for José López, he delivered it to López, as I said, to the address near the Faena Hotel. According to Lopez, Together with Cristina, he prepared the list of highway payments, knowing who would be paid first.“.

Thereafter, and after the National Highway Directorate had paid for the certificates of employment, the companies were to be included in a further list, also provided by Clarens, “which was to set out the circumstances under which the representatives of the various companies would go to the offices of the financier.” to give you a percentage of what was collected“.

It was the former president who, according to José López’s statements, “was the one who returned it to me with the amount that these four companies (-Austral, CPC, Electroingeniería and JCR-) had to demand and I redid it and sent it to Passacantando. That was the list that was authorized to pay.”

He remembered again what José López had said as remorse. When Néstor Kirchner died in 2010, “I told Cristina everything. That there was a collection system in the road works, I told her about the mechanism that I knew in the rest of the ministry and that I also didn’t know anything about the OCCOVI mechanism until Uberti left, and I explained to her that after Uberti there was no longer any collection in the OCCOVI. I think she didn’t believe me and He sent me an audit that took months.“.

“After meeting with the President and Julio de Vido in Olivos in 2011, the President De Vido asks for the list of monthly payments for all the works of the Planning Ministry discriminated against by companies. And both ask me to do the same for the National Highway Directorate, which depended on my Public Works Secretariat,” López confessed.

Each month, “based on the information from the work certificates given to me by the highway directors and with the budget quota or amount to be paid to the companies that month established by Roberto Baratta and Minister De Vido, I developed proportionally the list for whose fees each company was responsible.” This list was given to the President and Julio De Vido“The former Minister of Public Works explained that this list “was given to each individual by hand and on paper.”

The former president – according to the prosecution’s accusation – “determined the amounts that Austral (from Lázaro Báez), CPC (from Cristóbal López), Electroingeniería (from Gerardo Ferreyra) and JCR (from Juan Carlos Relats) should in principle collect, and the rest was distributed proportionately with the other companies.”

In a similar vein, Ernesto Clarens declared his remorse. He said: “According to López, he made the list of highway payments with Cristina and she knew who was paid first. I would like to add that Muñoz always mentioned to me that all the cash was in metal files that were in a safe.” in the basement of the Kirchner couple’s house in El Calafate, where there was a strong smell of ink. Muñoz told me that on Fridays the money was transported on official planes that left the Aeroparque of the military sector and landed at Rio Gallegos airport or in El Calafate. The final destination of the money was always El Calafate.”

Another statement that compromises the former president is that of the businessman Juan Chediackwho said that “he had a direct relationship with José López and Ernesto Clarens and that the former “had lists of companies that could not work and lists of payment priorities from the National Highway Directorate”.