The prosecutor asked to send financier “k” Ernesto Clarens to a trial laundering money from corruption.

Federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita asked on Thursday that a judge Julian Ercolini would send to an oral trial 12 others accused of making legal guarantees for negotiations of more than $500 million “due to acts of corruption” such as financier Ernesto Clarens. To Lázaro Baez, businessman Lázaro Baez, the axis of Grupo Australia By making concessions to public works, the country” .Baez, these funds provided to Cristina It is the focus of another trial prosecution where Vice President Kirchner and former officials are prosecuted.

Clarens was chosen by Néstor Kirchner as the preferred financier and would have organized his engineering so that he could move the money under investigation. His company, called Invernes, was always suspected that it meant “investing in Nestor”. For 10 years he went from a simple broker to one of the most powerful operators in Kirchnerism, and when the laptop case exploded, in 2018 he was in a statement that caused a jerk between the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli and the deceased judge. Among the “regrets” of Mega Files Became one: Claudio Bonadio accepts his role as a “defendant collaborator” at the time.

In a 140-page comment accessed by Infobae, the Pollicita prosecutor explained how Báez, the designated organizer of the illegal association, would “use Ernesto Clarens to co-establish complex financial engineering to give a legal look to the funds received from the country by the Baez Group company stating through fraud in public road works where he was prosecuted.”

According to the Prosecutor's Office, “there is an intimate connection between the illegal association of public administration fraud and the money laundering investigated here.” Why? According to the prosecutor, in this case, “it was possible to confirm that after the theft of funds from the country through fraud in public road works, Baez used the process of street and recycling so that the money could be freely disposed of. The maneuver was through “fiction about expenses that do not exist in public works”.

That is why he stressed that the previous crime of money laundering is the disappointment of a country where the former Minister of Planning, Julio de Vido, Cristina Kirchner, is under trial with the former Minister of Public Works José Lopez and Nestor Kirchner's cousin Carlos Santiago Kirchner, with Baez. We are currently going through the final stage with the last witness and In oral trials where a ruling can be reached before the end of the year, as reflected by the Court itself when adding more hearings to proceed with the proceedings.

Pollicita, who investigated the case against the CFK, said in the case currently being discussed in the Federal Oral Court 2: “Between May 2003 and December 2015, a corruption plan was implemented so that officials with competence in the field of public works - the president, minister, secretary and deputy secretary - a very large amount of public funds were allocated to the National Highway Administration and assigned to the province of Santa Cruz with the contribution of those responsible, with the intervention of the local authorities.” In this way, he “is awarded irregularly to the company of Báez.” It received almost 80% of the works funded by the state,” he added. That said, “51 contracts for the total amount updated to August 2016 amounted to 46 billion pesos, which at that time amounted to about $3 million,” he added.

Pollicita said that with the money Báez appealed to Ernesto Clarens. “And together they developed a complex money laundering mechanism, using the contributions of the rest of the defendants, based on the fictitious conclusions of successive commercial and financial intermediaries, under the guise of unique costs. Although it is a public business, but it has no real commercial purpose, it aimed at showing its legal appearance and converting it into cash at that time, about 160 million dollars or more.

This comment explains what a money laundering maneuver would have been like; the first step was to “channel at least 790 million pesos from Australian Construcciones to GOTTI SA (also Báez).” “The first company was able to convert more than a quarter of its income to the latter, turning it into a bridge company of maneuvers”. The objective was “to provide funds to Ernesto Clarens, who controlled Invernest, who entrusted the financial management of GOTTI SA,” and at the same time “to remove funds from illegal origins at the largest public exhibition of Australian Construcciones”.

The prosecutor's office stated that the second step was to “withdraw funds from the Báez group through a simulation of non-existent costs that appear to be operations related to the common costs required by the public works of GOTTI SA.” More than 8,000 invoices from 65 suppliers totaled 677 million pesos at hypothetical costs.

The third stage of maneuver appeared when the accounting of funds was secured for companies outside the group. Among these financiers, the main financiers were controlled by the Clarens group, which “allowed them to go one step further from the distance of funds and convert them into cash, thereby disrupting traceability,” he explained. “All this happened continuously and simultaneously between January 2005 (when the first transfer of funds occurred) and until December 2009, when the last check made by Invernest was deducted.” He added.

Clarence's indictment of the case arrived in November 2020. The Federal Chamber of Commerce confirmed the indictment of the main defendant in September 2021 and ruled on the lack of merit of others involved. The case is still under investigation of several suspects, but the prosecutor asked him to go to trial, understanding that the analysis of evidence against a group of people involved with Clarens was completed. These are Alberto Eduardo di Gianni, Guido Santiago Blondo, Raphael Matteo Mulini, Cesar Gerardo Andres and Andres Kechian, Armando Oled, Hector Daniel Doldi and Maria Julia Sith, Andrea Daniela Kantin, Martin Samuel Jacobs, and Emilio Carlos Martin.

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