2024-04-18 14:29:25
The private security company Securitas He admitted before the court that he paid millionaire bribes to representatives of organizations such as the Argentine Water and Sanitation company (AYSA), the National Registry of Persons (Renaper), the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) and the National Agency for Controlled Materials (Anmac). According to him, he argued, he did them so as not to lose contracts and to collect services that were owed to them. There are nine detainees.
He also paid to expedite procedures for the possession of weapons by his guards and put them on alert regarding possible inspectionsdepending on the cause.
The file is handled by the federal judge of San Isidro Sandra Arroyo Salgado and the federal prosecutor Fernando Dominguez. According to the newspaper The nation, In the last hours, more than 50 raids were carried out and 9 suspects were detained, all executives of Securitas Argentina SA.
The investigation began from complaints from representatives of the company itself, who maintained that a group of former company directors “abused and used the corporate structure, as well as its position in the market and the reputation of the group.”with the sole purpose of obtaining a benefit for themselves and, indirectly, for the companies they represented“.
The Securitas case; the list of organizations
Among the public organizations and companies in which the National Gendarmerie, by court order, carried out procedures, include the Ministry of the Interior (Renaper); Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (Senasa); Ministry of Transportation of the Nation (AA2000); Ministry of Public Works of the Nation (AySA) and the Ministry of Security (Airport Security Police, Naval Prefecture, National Agency for Controlled Materials).
The Ministry of Defense (General Accounting of the Army) is added; Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires (Provincial Directorate for the Management of Private Security and Provincial Registry of Weapons); Ministry of Security and Justice of the Province of Entre Ríos (Private Surveillance Agencies Section of the Entre Ríos Police); Energy Secretariat of the Province of Entre Ríos (Enersa) Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Argentina (Petrolera del Cono Sur – Pdvsa)
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At the time of the complaint, Securitas Argentina SA was a subsidiary of Securitas AB, which offers security, monitoring, consulting and investigation services with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
Currently, the local subsidiary belongs to a company with Argentine capital and a Latin American group. Research sources maintain that the current management does not have no relation to “improper payments”.
The crimes being investigated in the Securitas case
The facts investigated constitute crimes such as fraud once morest the public administration, bribery, gifts and unfaithful or fraudulent administration. They would have occurred between 2012 and 2018, that is during two terms of governmentthe second of Cristina Kirchner and that of Mauricio Macri.
The Administrative Investigations Prosecutor’s Office (PIA) and the Economic Crime and Money Laundering Prosecutor’s Office (Procelac) collaborate in the investigation.
The detainees were identified by judicial sources as Jorge Christian Faria, Luis Vecchi, Alejandro Castex, Gabriel Di Cesare, Marcelo Tortul, Claudio Tortul, Alberto Alesci, Julio Terrado and Carlos Rinaudo. All held management positions in the company.
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