The Marathon reading of the allegations in the bribery booklet trial reaches its final stage. In the twelfth hearing – after presenting more than 1,300 allegations against the 86 defendants, led by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta and businessmen such as Carlos Wagner, Aldo Benito Roggio and Ángelo Calcaterra – The Federal Court No. 7 will continue the accusation in the case of cartelization of public works discovered from analyzing driver Oscar Centeno’s diaries.
This file – one of three parallel cases that arose alongside the main case, all of which were investigated and requested to be brought to trial by prosecutor Carlos Stornelli – focuses on the Argentine Chamber of Road Contractorsknown in Comodoro Py as “La Camarita”, with important defendants such as Financier Ernesto Clarenswho is accused of organizing the bribe together with businessman Carlos Wagner, a leader in the public works sector. CFK, De Vido and López, former minister of public works, are the main political defendants. Roberto Baratta, for example, is not part of this file.
For Stornelli, the alleged goal of this illegal organization was clear: Collect bribeswith a kind of project distribution club with public money that guarantees Return to executive power between 3 and 20 percent. The confessions of Clarens, López and several businessmen were crucial in substantiating the accusation presented at the trial by prosecutor Fabiana León. De Vido was according to the indictment “the person most responsible for specifying the system.”
The previous hearing was marked by remarkable data reflecting thiss privileges that businessmen had access to who paid the alleged bribes. CalcaterraPart of the IECSA, cousin of Mauricio Macri, who himself regretted the case during Macri’s presidency, received an award from 23 works in the period examined for “a total amount of $2,899,552,917.97”according to Stornelli’s indictment, given the $3.5 million he allegedly paid in bribes.
Roggiothe former president of the company Benito Roggio e Hijos is accused of carrying it out eleven false payments between June 2009 and September 2010 for $5.9 million. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the National Highway Directorate He received 22 works for more than $3.3 billion.
Last Tuesday’s hearing, which lasted almost five hours, ended with reading the allegations against businessmen connected to the network spun by Clarensalmost on page 370 of 420 of the application for the presentation of the case of cartelization of public works projects. Today’s hearing is expected to culminate in the reading of the charges in the “La Camarita” case.
If the reading ends, as Judge Enrique Méndez Signori announced, the indictment of the 92-page file 18590/2018 can begin today, Thursday. This parallel case is investigated Julio De Vido, the former civil servant and repentant Claudio Uberti, who headed the road concessions control pointalong with eight other businessmen investigating bribes in the Road Corridor No. 1 concession that allegedly took place between 2003 and 2007. The other parallel file still in circulation is the one that investigated irregularities in railway contracts during the first period of Kirchnerism, with Juan Pablo Schiavi as the main defendant.
The hearing began: Clarens, the manager of Trucho payments
Hearing number 12 in the notebook trial began shortly after 9:25 a.m. on Thursday. He Defendant Pablo Gutiérrez of the Fontana Nicastro company, one of more than 50 defendants In the “La Camarita” case, which involves a one-time bribe payment, he was one of the first to be mentioned that day. Carlos Wagner betrayed him, as did Clarens, with whom Gutiérrez recognized contacts in order to release payments in highways.
“Carlos Enrique Guillermo Wagner identified this company as one of the members of the cartel systemAlthough Ernesto Clarens was issued under the same conditionswho conveniently said that at Fontana Nicastro SA there was contact with Mr. Pablo Gutiérrez.”
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