OCA has a new owner. The largest postal company in Argentina passed into the hands of COC Global Enterprise, the investment fund led by businessman Leonardo Scatturice.
Scaturice He made his breakthrough in the business world a few months ago when he took over the airline Flybondi.
The purchase of OCA marks a new chapter in the company’s long and storied history, which has passed through various owners and political environments over the past 25 years. In the recent past there have been controversial names such as Alfredo Yabrán, Hugo Moyano, Cristóbal López and Juan Navarro (from the Exxel group), which have made the company a relevant and controversial player in the logistics sector.
The new owners emphasized that they want to make OCA the “largest messaging, transportation and logistics company in Latin America” by leveraging technology and synergies between the companies in the portfolio.
Before conducting these operations, he was in the eye of the storm because an aircraft he owned landed at Aeroparque last February and was left in a Royal Class Company hangar in a “transit” situation. Laura Belén Arrieta was traveling on this plane with more than a dozen suitcases.. And as published THE NATIONWhen customs wanted to check them, “an order came from above” that prevented the procedure. Located close to Santiago Caputo and the government, Scatturice is also a supplier to Trenes Argentinos and on the Educ.Ar platform.
The postal company was founded in Córdoba in 1957 as Organizadora Coordinadora Argentina (OCA). It was nationalized in the 1970s and privatized again shortly afterwards. Already privately owned in the 80sestablished itself as one of the main players in the postal business until, through a group of front men, it ended up in the hands of businessman Alfredo Yabrán.
Despite accusations of being the intellectual author of the murder of photographer José Luis Cabezas, Yabrán eventually committed suicide, despite having left OCA a few months earlier. The buyer at the time was the investment fund The Exxel Group, which also came to a bad end when the crisis broke out in 2001.
OCA passed into the hands of the creditor banks until businessman Patricio Farcuh emerged in 2013, who owned OCA Support the powerful Teamsters Union. Three years later, the union took control of the company until it changed hands again with the emergence of the Clear Group, founded by Cristóbal López.
Its last majority shareholder to date was businessman Claudio Espinosa, who in turn is the owner of the private email company Flecha Log.
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