Juan Pablo De Jesus: Allegations of Money Laundering and Illicit Enrichment Surround Former Mayor

2023-10-17 21:11:00

MAR DEL PLATA.- Juan Pablo De Jesus He was mayor of the Costa Party for twelve years, between 2007 and 2019, when he became provincial deputy. This Sunday he presents himself as a candidate to renew that seat, while he is vice chief of staff of the Buenos Aires government, a place where he was elected by Martin Insaurraldewho had to resign from his position following the scandal that followed his photographs with a model aboard a yacht in Marbella.

A councilor from that maritime district of Buenos Aires has just denounce De Jesús for money laundering and illicit enrichment, to request that it be investigated whether he is the owner of more than 60 properties and, if so, progress is made in the investigation to determine if these operations are connected with similar crimes that are attributed to the current communal chief – on leave – from Lomas de Zamora.

The case was presented Evangelina Milagros Cordonewho occupies a seat in the Deliberative Council of the Costa Party representing Together for Change and fell to Secretary No. 11 of the Federal Court of the Judicial Department of Lomas de Zamora, on duty this last weekend, when they presented the writing of his lawyers, Rodrigo and Sergio Bonzo. During these hours, the transfer would be made to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to decide whether a new file is opened or this accusation and evidentiary material is incorporated into the one already being processed once morest Insaurralde, also for alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering, in the Court. Criminal and Federal Correctional Facility No. 1 of Lomas de Zamora, in charge of Ernesto Kreplak.

“If this Pandora’s box opens, they will have something to make because Juan Pablo is not a pichi, he is not just anyone,” Cordone told THE NATION and he did not hesitate to define him as “a grosso” in politics. “It is an Insaurralde two and I don’t know if the profile is not much higher”he risked, warning him with a capacity for power from the management and handling of resources that would have allowed him to generate “a lot of favors and all the political parties.”

In 2007, Juan Pablo de Jesús replaced his father, Juan de Jesús, who was mayor for four terms (1983-1995 and 2003-2007) in the Costa Party. This Sunday, his father will compete to return to the mayor’s office.

His son, the current deputy and vice chief of staff, has ancestry within the group of mayors led by Insaurralde, where he was affectionately referred to as Counter”since in the budget negotiations that Insaurralde used to lead with the governments in power -before María Eugenia Vidal, then Axel Kicillof-, De Jesús was in charge of polishing the work schedules and funds for the municipalities.

It is also noted as Miguel de Lisi’s political bosscurrent administrative secretary of the Buenos Aires Chamber of Deputies, who presides Federico Otermin, dolphin of Insaurralde and candidate for mayor of Lomas de Zamora. In fact, De Lisi is responsible for the management of resources of the lower house, involved in another scandal: that of Julio “Chocolate” Rigauthe PJ leader who collected salaries with 49 Legislature employee cards.

Martín Insaurralde brought together the mayors of the Buenos Aires PJ with Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia in Lomas; De Jesús, behind Insaurralde in the photo

Cordone’s complaint became public in the program Odisea Argentina, hosted by Carlos Pagni on LN+. There he anticipated this new situation that, beyond having as its focus the current Buenos Aires official and former president of the Costa Party, involves more suspicions. Insaurralde, who continues without making public statements regarding the episode that had him as the protagonist and his subsequent decision to abandon the management that he had been carrying out for almost two years in a strategic position in the government in charge of Axel Kicillof.

Cordone tightly ties the ends that link Juan Pablo de Jesús with Insaurralde. In the document presented before the court and to which he agreed THE NATIONpoints out that he is the best man at the wedding that united the president of Lomas de Zamora with the model and television host Jessica Cirioa marriage that led to a recent divorce that also had its judicial implications.

Insaurralde and Cirio, at the wedding of Juan Pablo de Jesús with Alexia Toumikian

He understands that the investigation requested now should reach determine whether Juan Pablo De Jesús is “a vehicle for laundering public money in his role as a possible front man and necessary participant in the enrichment of Mr. Martín Insaurralde”.

It states that Juan Pablo de Jesús “was always a public employee, dependent on the national, provincial or municipal state, with no known personal professional activity outside of politics, that is, he has always worked in the field of public administration, not being able to “show no previous or subsequent private activity that justifies his economic wealth and that of his family,” they propose to judicial investigators.

In addition to leaving in court an extensive list of 61 properties that she considers to be the property of the person requesting to be investigated, the councilor warns that from the public function that she has to exercise she has not only been able to “gather information on the properties they own”, but also warn “the ostentation that they proclaim in their daily lives: trips, properties and eccentricities within the private neighborhoods along the La Costa District, such as private events and lavish fashion shows without communal participation in them, only for the media environment and his relatives and officials, where his friend Martín Insaurralde often appeared with the De Jesús-Toumikian couple (Alexia).”

The majority of these properties are within the jurisdiction of the Partido de la Costa with some of them notable for their location and market valuation.

Score in two in neighboring lots in the Maritime Neighborhood IV of Emerald coaston the border with Pinamar, perhaps the destination with the highest real estate value per square meter on the Buenos Aires beachfront. Each unit is assigned a quote of around $670,000. And it adds, in this case in the Commercial District, two others that are local, each estimated at $468,000.

It also provides data from two corporations with the surname De Jesús in between and Juan Pablo’s wife as a common denominator. In one, called Areknaz SRL, it states that the marriage is property and the councilor assures that from that firm they would be owners of the two most expensive properties attributed to them in Costa Esmeralda. Another, Varoujan SRL, is made up of the mayor’s wife and his son, Juan Aramis.

It provides the justice system with other precise information regarding civil associations that would be linked to the current Buenos Aires deputy chief of staff and that, Cordone suspects, might be a channel for money laundering. And he complains regarding the presentation of De Jesús’s sworn assets declaration, since he understands that he “maliciously” omitted it.

Conocé The Trust Project
1697577938
#investigate #Juan #Pablo #Jesús #Kicillofs #vice #chief #staff #accountant #mayors

Leave a Replay