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

Federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita said on Thursday that Justice Julian Ercolini was accused of providing legal guarantees for negotiations of more than $500 million “due to acts of corruption” such as financier Ernesto Clarens, businessman Lázaro Baez (Lázaro Baez) (Baez) is the axis of the Australian Group (Grupo Australia) .Baez, this fund was awarded to Cristina It was provided at the center of another process where Vice President Kirchner and former officials are prosecuted.

Clarens was chosen as the preferred financier by Néstor Kirchner, and he organized engineering to move the money under investigation. His company, called Invernes, was always suspected that it meant 'investing in the Nestore'. For 10 years it changed from a simple broker to one of the most powerful operators in Kirchnerism, and in 2018 when the laptop case exploded, a statement that caused a jerk between the prosecutor's office Carlos Stornelli and the late judge It was in the stand.Mega It became one of the “regrets” of Files. Claudio Bonadio accepts his role as a “defendant collaborator” at the time.

In a 140-page commentary accessed by Infobae, the Pollicita prosecutor explained how Báez, the designated organizer of the illegal association, “co-founded complex financial engineering using Ernesto Clarens to provide legal aspects to the funds received from the Baez Group company by making statements through fraud in public road works pursued by the company.”

According to the Prosecutor's Office, “there is an intimate connection between the illegal fraud association of the public administration and the money laundering investigated here.” Why? According to the prosecutor's office, in this case, “after stealing funds from the country through fraud in public road works, Baez was able to confirm that he could freely dispose of his money using road courses and laundering. The maneuver was through “fiction about expenses that do not exist in public works.”

That is why he pointed out that the previous crime of money laundering was a disappointment in the country where former Minister of Planning Julio de Vido and Cristina Kirchner are being tried with former Minister of Public Works José Lopez and Nestor Kirchner's cousin Carlos Santiago Kirchner (Carlos Santiago Kirchner)., the sentence can be reached before the end of the year, as indicated by the court itself when adding more hearings to proceed with the lawsuit.

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, officials with expertise in the public works sector - the president, minister, secretary and deputy secretary - a large amount of public funds were allocated to the National Highway Administration and assigned to the province of Santa Cruz with contributions from those responsible due to the intervention of the local authorities.” In this way, “Báez's company will be irregularly assigned.” I received almost 80% of the state-funded works.” He added, that is, “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.”

Pollicita said that with the money Baez appealed to Ernesto Clarence. “And together they 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 financials, under the guise of a single expense. Although it is a public business, it has no real business purpose, it aimed to show the legal side and convert it into cash of about 160 million dollars or more at the time.

This comment explains what a money laundering strategy looks like. The first step was to “deliver at least 790 million pesos from Australian construction to GOTTI SA (Báez).” “The first company was able to convert more than a quarter of its income to the latter, turning it into a company that maneuvers,” the objective was to “provide funding to Ernesto Clarens, who controlled Invernest, who entrusted the financial management of GOTTI SA” and at the same time “remove funds from illegal origin to the public exhibition of the largest Australian construction.

The second step, according to the prosecutor, is to withdraw funds from the Báez group through a simulation of expenses that “do not exist, which appears to be an operation related to the common costs necessary for the work. GOTTI SA” .More than 8,000 invoices from 65 suppliers amounted to 677 million pesos in virtual costs.

The third phase of the maneuver appeared when the accounting of funds for companies outside the group was secured. Among these financiers, the main lenders were controlled by Clarens Group, which “allowed them to go one step further than the distance of funds and convert them into cash, hindering traceability,” he explained. “All this happened continuously and simultaneously, until January 2005 (when the first transfer of funds occurred) and December 2009, when Winterest made the last check,” 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 others involved. Although the case is still investigating several suspects, the prosecutor asked him to go to trial, understanding that the analysis of evidence against those involved with Clarens was complete.These are Gianni's Alberto Eduardo, Guido Santiago Blondo, and Rafael Matteo Mulini, Cesar Gerardo Andres and Andres Kekian, Armando Ole, Hector Daniel Doldi and Maria Julia Sith, Andrea Daniela Kantin, Martin Samuel Jacobs, and Emilio Carlos Martin.

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