On a stopover he made in the American city of Miami, Sebastián Eskenazi was notified that he was summoned to testify in the case for the expropriation of YPF. In this way, the chief executive of the Petersen Group It must be presented to the United States justice on March 1.
“The plaintiffs notified Sebastián Eskenazi by means of a certificate requesting documents and testimony on February 11, 2021, during a stopover in Miami,” he says. the document submitted by Petersen Energía (who used to belong to the Eskenazi), to which you accessed THE NATION. And it continues: “The citation documents require the presentation of documents on February 26, 2021 and a statement on March 1, 2021.”
In the document of the Court of the Southern District of New York -in addition- they point out that the Eskenazi family “continues to be involved with the leadership of the republic” and they exemplify this by saying that, on December 2, Alberto Fernández met with Matías Eskenazi Storey (Sebastián’s brother), in his role as head of Banco Santa Fe, “to talk about a banking initiative.” They also warn that Enrique Eskenazi he owns 51% of Banco de Santa Cruz, the most important in the region.
“Sebastián Eskenazi has testified in accordance with the warrants or rotating letters that his only email address was the one provided by YPF,” is highlighted below.
In another section of the document they also say that “The republic did not only seek an ‘Argentinization’ of YPF, but a ‘Kirchnerization'”, and -after saying that the Eskenazis were very close to the Kirchner marriage- they launch: “Even before the Republic established Sebastián Eskenazi as CEO of YPF, this “He was one of the few men in Argentina with free access to the president’s office that he could enter ‘without asking anyone’s permission’, except the head of state.”
The summons of Sebastián Eskenazi to testify occurs almost 9 years after former Minister of Economy Axel Kicillof appeared in Congress to explain the plan to expropriate 51% of YPF’s shares, which at that time belonged to the Spanish oil company Repsol. In his calculations, the current governor of Buenos Aires estimated to pay US $ 5 billion for that share package.
The cost of that decision ended up being greater, after the Eskenazi family, owner of the Petersen Energía Inversora and Petersen Energía companies, will go bankrupt in Spain, for not being able to face the syndicated loan it had received to buy 25% of YPF’s shares. That loan that Credit Suisse had approved together with other groups of banks was guaranteed to pay the profits of YPF’s shares.
Once filed for bankruptcy, the English fund Burford Capital acquired the right to litigate against Argentina and YPF for 15 million euros and 30% of the compensation resulting from the trial. However, in practice, the Petersen group did not give up the rights to the disputed loan, since the lawsuit in New York is in the name of their companies, and not Burford Capital. This could then be a financial assistance that the fund advanced to the group to pay the costs of the lawsuit and to bring the lawsuit under the name of the Petersen companies. The Eskenazi family, for their part, deny having any connection with the cause.
According to the criteria of
More information
WHAT’S MORE
– .
