Former Minister of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services Julio Miguel de Vido (75 years old) He has already added his first firm sentence in 4 years, But she has others 2 to 4 years each For reasons of scrap trains and irregular import of LNG ships that have not yet been certified by the Cassation Chamber and the Court.
At the same time, he faces trial on charges of bribery books, as an organizer of an illegal association, where he could face a sentence of between two and 12 years and trial in the case of the Swedish construction company Skanska, among other operations.
Although the matter is not a mathematical sum, he faces a judicial scenario that may lead him to spend the rest of his life under house arrest, not to mention the confiscation to which his property and the property of his children will be subjected, according to estimates from judicial sources he consulted. Clarion.
Due to this judicial situation, Donald Trump’s government banned him from entering his country last year. “Christina Kirchner and Di Fido They abused their position by organizing multiple bribery schemes and benefiting financially from them related to public works contracts, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars from the Argentine government. “Several courts have convicted CFK and De Fido of corruption, which has undermined the confidence of the Argentine people and investors in Argentina’s future,” the Trump administration said in a statement.
His wife Alessandra Minicelli, former second in the General Syndicate of the Nation (SIGEN) MP for Buenos Aires PJ, was not elected. But she complains that many of the leaders who asked her husband for budgets to work in the provinces have now turned their backs on her. She does not hide her annoyance with Cristina Kirchner, who in 2017 ordered the Peronist bloc of deputies not to go into the building and thus facilitate the violation and detention of her husband ordered by then judge Claudio Bonadio in the case of overpricing at the Rio Torbio power station.
“A bottle of champagne for Dr. Carrillo” He said when he was detained in the courts of Comodoro Bay, referring to the leader of the Civic Coalition-ARI who denounced him the most when he had great powers and also managed the political and economic relationship with Chavismo. This dark relationship based on the diesel fund never progressed far enough for him to be prosecuted, but the former head of the toll watchdog, Claudio Uberti, admitted to the millions that Nestor and Hugo Chavez shared with each other in negotiations with Argentine foreign debt securities.
Among the pigeons and canaries he raises on his farm in Puerto BanalDe Vido is scheduled to appear in custody on Thursday, but his lawyers will ask for house arrest because he is over 70 years old, the same benefit that former President Cristina Kirchner received.
A close confidant of former president Nestor Kirchner, who moved from Palermo to Río Gallegos as a young man, and the entire leadership of his former top ministry were also put on trial.
He managed the relationship with Chavismo. Even his former cook Nelida Caballero who was given a two-year suspended prison sentence for laundering several million pesos.
In 2022, in the case called “Scrap Trains Imported from Spain and Portugal”, the court sentenced De Vido to 4 years in prison for having co-authored a “fraud due to fraudulent administration at the expense of public administration”.
Last September, De Vido was sentenced to prison Four years imprisonment and life imprisonment in the case of importing liquefied natural gas (liquefied natural gas). Roberto Barata (three years and six months in prison) and Dromi Sanmartino (three years suspended) were also sentenced for the crime of fraudulent administration at the expense of public administration.
While he faced other oral trials. In the case dubbed “Mama Corazon” with Andrea del Boca, that was the case He was acquitted. He was also acquitted of Antonini Wilson’s $800,000 purse that had been there since 2007.
While he faces the Cuadernos and Skanska trial, in which Public Prosecutor Abel Cordoba asked him to imprison him for 5 years.
Nestor’s favorite former minister as well He is being prosecuted “in the common dreams of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo for diversion of public funds and irregularities in the creation of the Argentine Digital Terrestrial Television (SATVD-T) system for the stateamong other things, according to judicial sources.
But De Vido still has power left. In 2021, chats exchanged with his right-hand man Parata were discovered, which revealed how they were preparing political attacks against former Macrista Energy Minister Juan José Aranguren in order to increase public service prices and Korean journalists such as Roberto Navarro or Horacio Verbitsky, among others. Other targets of these theatrics were Carrillo, former Together for Change Santa Cruz senator Eduardo Costa and former auditor of the Rio Torbio mine, Oscar Zidane.
Whatsapp messages from Baratta’s iPhone from 2016 and 2017 were incorporated into the oral trial by Cuadernos de las Bribes. In conversations, Barata reveals that in addition to journalists, He ran a group of trolls on social networks.
The strategy was the same that Barata would have used in 2019 when he was on remand in Ezeiza prison and organized the POV operation against the Cuadernos de las Pribes case. From prison, Parata created a WhatsApp group with… More than a dozen journalists and operators gave them their “scoop.” His wife sent him the information to take notes to “Paola, Juan, Lali, Giolito, Tony (Coleman), Daniel Acha, (Roberto) Navarro, Amado, El “Mexicano” and “Lide,” among others.
Ariel Kormberg, an economist at CONICET, calculated the “Cost of Corruption K” at the Planning Ministry in a 2018 study. “The figure was published at the time. It has not been updated until today.” It is 36,000 million US dollarsTo estimate the black money the former senior minister would have managed, without reinvesting it to beat US inflation, during these years, Kormberg said.
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