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

Federal Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita asked Thursday that a judge Julian Ercolini would send 12 others to an oral trial accused of providing legal guarantees for negotiations of over 500 million dollars “due to acts of corruption” such as financier Ernesto Clarens. In 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 at the center of another process in which Vice-President Kirchner and former officials are prosecuted.

Clarens was chosen by Néstor Kirchner as the preferred financier, and he would organize 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 it has gone from a simple broker to one of the most powerful operators in Kirchnerism, and when the laptop case exploded, in 2018 it was in a statement that caused a jerk between the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli and the late judge. Among the “regrets” of Mega Files it has become one: Claudio Bonadio accepts his role as “accused collaborator” at the time.

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

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, “there is an intimate link between the public administration's illegal fraud association 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 road process and laundering so that the money could be freely disposed of. The maneuver was through “fiction about expenses that do not exist in public works”.

That's why he pointed out that the previous crime of money laundering is the disappointment of a country where former Minister of Planning, Julio de Vido, Cristina Kirchner, is on 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 sentence can be reached before the end of the year, as indicated by the Court itself when it added more hearings to proceed with the proceedings.

Pollicita, who investigated the case against the CFK, said in the case currently under discussion in Federal Oral Court 2: “Between May 2003 and December 2015, a corruption plan was implemented in so that officials with expertise in the field of public works - the president, the minister, the secretary and the deputy secretary - a 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 local authorities.” In this way, “it is irregularly assigned to Báez's company.” It received almost 80 percent of the state-funded works,” he added. That said, “51 contracts for the total amount updated in August 2016 amounted to 46 billion pesos, which at the time amounted to about 3 million dollars,” he added.

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

This comment explains what a money laundering ploy would look 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 into the latter, turning it into a maneuvering company.” The aim 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 to the largest Australian Construcciones' public exhibition.

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

The third stage of maneuvering appeared when the accounting of funds was secured for companies outside the group. Among these financiers, the main lenders were controlled by the Clarens Group, which “allowed them to go one step further than the distance of the funds and convert them into cash, thus disrupting the traceability,” he explained. “All of this happened continuously and simultaneously between January 2005 (when the first transfer of funds took place) and until December 2009, when the last cheque made by Winterest”. He added.

Clarence's indictment of the case came 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 the others involved. The case is still under investigation on several suspects, but the prosecutor has asked him to go to trial, understanding that the analysis of the evidence against a group of people involved with Clarens is has been completed. These are Alberto Eduardo by 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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