The illegal dollar deflated after the run driven by the statements of the far-right candidate Javier Milie against the peso, but the investigation into the caves of the City of Buenos Aires remained open, in particular, the financial company Nimbus headed by Ivo Esteban “El Croata” Rojnica. Who is the lawyer assisting you? This is Gastón Maranothe same one that represents Gabriel Carrizo, the leader of the “Los Copitos” gang and accused as a secondary participant in the assassination attempt against Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
Marano has a long career that links him to both Juntos por el Cambio and Libertad Avanza, and the United States Embassy. The latest judicial news for Marano was the setback of the Federal Chamber to grant house arrest to Carrizo, who is awaiting the start of the oral trial against him for the attempted murder of CFK, along with Fernando Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte , accused as material authors.
The case for the attempted murder was brought to oral trial by Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti last June, but she refused to deepen the investigation into the financing of the attack with respect to the relations that link the accused with the Federal Revolution organization, a link which Uliarte recently confirmed. The person who continues the investigation into the financing of the far-right group – which carried out events calling for “bala” for the Kirchnerist leaders – is federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi.
It was precisely before De Giorgi that Marano appeared last Tuesday to accompany “El Croata”, the financier investigated as part of a circuit that extracts dollars from the official circuit to sell them on the parallel market, with possible connections between the City of Buenos Aires and the city of Rosario. “I want to be right,” Rojnica reportedly said when she arrived with Marano at the federal court, shortly after De Giorgi ordered a ban on her leaving the country.
Marano’s case could be limited to being a figure that appears in high-profile media cases such as that of Carrizo and Rojnica, or also that of the soccer player Jonathan Fabbro, sentenced to 19 years in prison for abusing a minor. In recent weeks, he was also one of the lawyers who filed a lawsuit against the former Buenos Aires Chief of Staff Martín Insaurralde after the leak of images on a yacht in Marbella. In 2019, he filed a title usurpation lawsuit against Marcelo D’Alessio.
But what is striking are his political connections. Not only those who remember him as a substitute candidate for deputy on a list headed by Eduardo Duhalde in 2011, but also from his most recent past. Before presenting himself as Carrizo’s defender, Marano served as an advisor to the national senator of Together for Change and elected governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres. Marano’s advice was, no less, than in the Bicameral Commission for Oversight and Intelligence Activities.
What other PRO legislator is part of the bicameral in which Marano was an advisor to Together for Change? Deputy Gerardo Milman, the former official and campaign manager of Patricia Bullrich, investigated in the case that Capuchetti is pursuing regarding the attempted assassination of CFK, while another part of the file was brought to trial in which Marano defends the head of the gang. of the Copitos”.
As an advisor to Torres, the lawyer was able to access reports produced by the Bicameral of Intelligence. A few hours after it became known that he began to represent Carrizo, the elected governor of Chubut had to remove him. However, Marano also showed he had other contacts: he used to present himself as a “special services assistant” at the United States Embassy, with a card with the American eagle shield.
The lawyer for the head of the “Los Copitos” gang and the leader of the financial company Nimbus also shares a studio with lawyer Brenda Selva, who is known for preparing reports for La Nación + and Crónica TV, and who also worked as an advisor to the PRO legislator Karina Ethel Bachey. But she was also dismissed after her colleague’s exposure.
In the case of his role as Carrizo’s defender, Marano told this newspaper that his arrival to the cause occurred through a colleague active on social networks who Carrizo’s brother had contacted. The Minister of Justice himself, Martín Soria, questioned it: “I have no doubt that behind these people there is something else: someone finances them (…) Someone today is paying the lawyers,” he said in a Interview with El Destape Radio.
Marano also maintained a working relationship with the candidate for head of the Buenos Aires government of La Libertad Avanza, Ramiro Marra, to whom he was an advisor in the Buenos Aires Legislature.