A report by the Financial Information Unit (FIU) involved former officials of the Neuquén provincial government, union leaders and Mapuches and oil service companies in “suspicious” payments and “apocryphal” billings that Repsol would have made when he was in control of YPF. The document dates from 2018, but it came to light now in the context of the ruling that will force the National State to pay compensation to the companies of the Petersen Group, through which the Eskenazi family acquired 25% of the Argentine oil company between 2008 and 2011.
The report was published today by the newspaper The nation and raises the link between Neuquén companies and officials when evaluating the need to verify if the maneuvers of the Petersen Group for the alleged “emptying” of the company might have been used to cancel part of its indebtedness. It lists there “funds taken from the payment of dividends, excessive fees, use of apocryphal billing and different fraudulent maneuvers.
Regarding the latter, the FIU document indicates that Repsol YPF’s activity was “overshadowed by reports of acts of business corruption.” There he mentions, among others, that “the Exploitation extension ceded by the Province of Neuquén by Governor Jorge Sobisch would have resulted suspected as an act of corruption and it became public in the media through statements by the same senators involved.”
But the key data is what it presents at the end of that section. “According to intelligence information that must be judicially corroborated, knowledge has been taken of the possible existence of a group of natural and legal personsallegedly linked to the Provincial and National Authorities, to the Union operating in the oil market (Private Oil and Gas Union) and to the shareholders of REPSOL YPF SA, who would have developed its activity at the request of the practice of acts of “BUSINESS CORRUPTION”which would affect REPSOL YPF SA and the National State».
Pereyra, Coco and Cherqui, those involved
It mentions that these people “would have created and managed oil service companies and activities related to the energy sectorwhich would have benefited from works and services contracts at Repsol YPF and its subsidiary companies.”
“In addition, they would have been beneficiaries of tax incentives related to the energy market as a consequence of its place or role within the energy market and/or as a supplier of Repsol YPF”, he adds.
These companies would invoiced works and services that would not have been provided or deliveredor they would have been partially lent or delivered, issuing bogus billing or increasing the amount billed with overprices,” the intelligence report states.
“Among the people involved we can mention, among others, the following: TSB SA, Claudio URCERALidia Justina PAZOS; REAL WORK SRL; SAND FROM SRL; RENAISSANCE SA; ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION; william coco; SOUITE SRL, VDN SA; Guillermo Pereyra; y Rolando Gabriel CHERQUI» is the text of the document.
The investigation of RIO NEGRO
RÍO NEGRO had already published in 2017 the names of Pereyra, Urcera and some of the firms mentioned, such as Real Work y VDNto generate million-dollar businesses for the hydrocarbon activity.
In this case, it was an investigation that dealt with the creation of tailor-made companies to provide the oleophilic blankets that were imposed in the industry, as well as the sand sourcing for hydrofracturing.
Pereyra answered this and other investigations linking the journalist Ítalo Pisani with a “espionage” network and an extortion team which, at that time, he related to the government of Mauricio Macri.
The full FIU report
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