Advances in Provincial Justice preventive tender for the refrigerator La Taba SRL based in Axis crossproperty of Vasena family. It was requested by Ignacio Marcelo Vasena Marengo, Father of several children, three of whom are currently managing the crisis of the company whose headquarters are in Villa Allende. The accumulated and defaulted debts amount to approximately $5,000 million.
It could be just another bankruptcy case, but what stands out in this case is that in January 2022, the highest authorities in the province, including then-Gov Juan Schiaretti, They made a promising announcement. They said that the company La Taba in Cruz del Eje I would invest $98 millions, would integrate “75 new jobs” from the “creation of 60 jobs” in the meat processing plant and 15 more in a “Refinery producing bone meal and refined fat in the town of Bañado de Soto“, land of former lawmaker Alejandro Ruiz, recently indicted by anti-corruption prosecutor Franco Mondino for omitting properties in his affidavit upon entering the unicameral in 2019.
The government provided a meat processing plant for the settlement in Cruz del Eje numerous advantages stipulated in the Industrial Promotion Act, which provided for: Exemption for 15 years from the payment of gross income tax, stamp duty and property tax. There is also a seven-year subsidy for every new employee the company hires full-time for an indefinite period. Another 25% of electricity consumption for seven years, which would then decline until it reaches 10% in the seventh period.
Everything was handled through the Ministry of Industry, whose head was at that time Eduardo Accastello. In fact, the officer appears in television reports on Cruz del Eje newscasts and was also a news story repeated by media throughout the province.
It is also added that the Advisory Council of this city granted the approval on July 29, 2021, during the term of Mayor Claudio Farías in Cruz del Eje Concession of the municipal slaughterhouse property to the Vasenas to run the La Taba refrigerator. The operation continues to take place on shared property.
Today it is known that they took out numerous bank loans for the announced alleged investment of millions, The refrigerator staff does not reach the 50-person workforce, There is no bone refinery in Bañado de Soto and the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) qualifies La Taba SRL as Debtor in situation 5therefore irretrievable.
The total amount of debt to the financial system, which appears on the official website of the BCRA, is $3,309.1 million. Adding to this picture is the fact that another company owned by the Vasenas closed its factory in June this year, leaving 12 workers on the streets Tyrolean colony. This is the company known in the trade as One Milaregistered in the name of Vaca SA.
La Taba SRL competition
On May 15 of this year, Ignacio Alejandro Vasena Marengo, as managing partner, filed for preventive bankruptcy and reported that the company defaulted on April 23. The bottom line is simple: despite the enormous tax and energy benefits and the transfer of the cooling building, the debts grew enormously and bankruptcy was declared stopped all executions which the creditors could have demanded.
The most important are banks and livestock breeders, suppliers to meat processing plants, including the Supervielle, Banco Industrial and Bancor. Currently the file is filed with the 33rd Civil and Commercial Court of the City of Córdoba, responsible for Marcela Antinucci.
The most recent development occurred at the end of November when the judge set new dates for the La Taba SRL competition:
-October 4, 2026: Decision on the judicial credit check.
-04/24/2026: The insolvent company must submit a justified proposal for grouping and classification into creditor categories.
-May 26, 2026: Deadline for submission of the overall report by the insolvency administration.
-06/24/2026: Categorization decision that the court will issue.
– October 21, 2026: Deadline for the debtor company to publish the offer of a preventive agreement proposal in the file.
-11/11/2026: Information hearing in the event that the debtor does not meet his obligations.
-11/19/2026: Expiry of the exclusivity period.
In parallel with the bankruptcy of the legal entity La Taba SRL, another guarantor or surety is being processed. They are members of society and members of the Vasena family.
Bankruptcy administration sources confirmed CORDOBA profile that “there have been no layoffs at the meat processing plant”, that “there are currently 49 employees” – far from the promised 75 – and that the company is currently undergoing a complete restructuring to turn itself around. Anything but the promising announcements from three years ago.
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