federal prosecutor Ramiro Gonzalez expanded the accusations in the cause who investigates the alleged diversion of funds through cooperatives in the municipality of Quilmes and requested new test measures, according to the opinion to which he agreed THE NATION.
The prosecutor extended the accusations, which now reach Sebastian Daera current AFIP official and ex-partner of Mayra Mendoza, who is now being investigated for being the proxy of a society of Alejandro Scozzarianother of the defendants in the case. As specified in the opinion, they were also charged Claudio Hernan Carbonethe Legal and Technical Secretary of the Municipality of Quilmes; Paul Brian O´ShanghnessyUndersecretary of Production and Employment of the Municipality of Quilmes, and Anabella Galvan, who would work in the municipality”. And he added to the investigation new requests for information on several companies that would have Scozzari as a common accountant.
In parallel, the federal justice system in Quilmes is investigating, in other file, the same facts, with the difference that it also focuses on the estate of the mayor. In both cases, the handling of funds for cooperatives that would have gone to associations chaired by municipal officials, with supposed final destination in accounts, is being investigated. offshore. The magnifying glass is set at regarding 535 million pesos that the Municipality of Quilmes paid to cooperatives that would be linked to a former official.
Along with these advances, the mayor of Quilmes and member of La Cámpora Mayra Mendoza He published a ten-minute video on his networks addressed to the residents of that municipality to refute the accusations once morest him, which he described as false news. “I am accused of leaking money to Miami and making payments to cooperatives that do not work. This is a complete and utter lie,” Mendoza said. And he said that the contracts were made in accordance with administrative procedures. “In none of the cooperatives are officials of this management or relatives,” he added. In the same message he criticized the media for disseminating information regarding judicial progress.
Two weeks ago, prosecutor González impulse criminal action once morest Mayra Mendoza and a group of former officials and employees of the Municipality of Quilmes.
In addition to Mendoza, they were charged Sebastian Rasp -former Undersecretary of Habitat of the municipality-, Martin Bordalejo -ex-official and lawyer-, Joseph Alexander Scozzari -Raspa y Bordalejo’s partner in an offshore firm-, Romina Cangelosi -Employed by the Municipality-, Alexander Gandulfo -head of cabinet of the municipality- and Cecilia Soler. -Secretary of Urban Development and Public Works of the municipality-. Raspa resigned from her position as soon as these events became known, with a letter that branded the information false. He was the first blow following the publication of the information by the site El Disenso.
In that judicial requirement, he requested a battery of test measures that included from requesting the lifting of banking and fiscal secrecy regarding some defendants -but not Mendoza-, requests for information to dependencies of the National State and even a certification of the registry of entities of the website of the National Institute of Associations and Social Economy (INAES) to obtain information on the activity and cooperatives that received funds from the municipality and that were questioned in the complaint.
He even asked to issue international warrants to the justice with jurisdiction over the city of Miami to obtain information on the accounts and firms mentioned in the complaint. The judge in the case is Ariel Lijo.
One of the hypotheses being studied by judicial officials of Comodoro Py is that work cooperatives were created through which money was withdrawn without providing sufficient information regarding those contract awards. The prosecutor also focuses on the companies through which, according to the complaint, money would have been transferred abroad, and on the tenders carried out by the municipality to award the contracts to the cooperatives.
The cooperatives in question are the Federation of Labor Cooperatives 1º de Mayo LTDA; the La Estrella LTDA Work Cooperative; Work Cooperative for the future LTDA; Progress Work Cooperative LTDA; Work Cooperative Until Victory Always I LTDA; Rubén Rodríguez LTDA Work Cooperative; United Neighborhood Labor Cooperative LTDA; Work Cooperative La Unión de Azul LTDA; and Work Cooperative Imprenta 19 de Febrero LTDA.
There are two complaints for these facts. One is the one that advances in Comodoro Py from a presentation by the lawyer Santiago Dupuy de Lome. To this file was added a presentation by the deputy of Together for Change Mónica Frade. The other was presented by the municipality of Quilmes itself when the site El Disenso revealed this information as a sort of self-report. That other file is in the hands of the federal judge of that jurisdiction, Luis Armella and the prosecutor Silvia Cavallo.
When she charged Mendoza, the prosecutor Cavallo not only requested evidence measures aimed at verifying whether the reported facts are true, but also ordered reports to the Financial Information Unit (UIF) to investigate the patrimony of the mayor and the rest of the accused, according to the judicial request to which she agreed THE NATION. The Quilmes federal justice also asked for collaboration from the Procelac.
In the video broadcast this followingnoon, Mendoza said: “I want my neighbors to know that if there are procedural acts of the investigation underway, it is because I asked my legal team from the Municipality to present themselves voluntarily to provide all the information to the Judiciary.”
