They raided the municipality of San Martín and prohibited the mayor from leaving the nation in a case just like that of “Chocolate” Rigau

Fernando Moreira, mayor of San Martín

This Friday, the Argentine Federal Police carried out a collection of raids within the Municipality of San Martín because of an episode that occurred a number of months in the past of an occasion just like the “Chocolate” Rigau case in La Plata. The case is investigated by federal choose Alicia Vence, who additionally prohibited Mayor Fernando Moreira from leaving the nation. It began when she found that an worker of the city’s Deliberative Council was charging bank cards from alleged non-existent municipal employees.

“There are solely 2 playing cards, it isn’t a system or a technique, or something comparable,” spokespersons for the municipality advised Infobae to reject the similarities with the Chocolate case. “The municipality is the principle get together in clarifying the actual fact.”

As specified, the 2 playing cards belong to 2 individuals who had been named in a decree as workers of the Deliberative Council of San Martín, not within the municipality, however their appointments seem in a decree that features 11 different individuals who do work in areas of the municipality.

The case started final December when a person reported that he was receiving a social plan from the Ministry of Social Growth and it was interrupted. As famous, he was paid about 300 thousand pesos by the San Martín mayor’s workplace as a municipal worker and the notion of a social plan was incompatible with him.

That was the kickoff of the investigation that led to the invention that an individual from the Municipality of San Martín had a number of debit playing cards and withdrew workers’ cash at an ATM close to the Deliberative Council. Thus, individuals with whole ignorance appeared as workers of the Municipality and on their behalf salaries had been collected as supposed jobs, in accordance with the Noticias Argentinas company.

Alicia Vence, federal choose of San Martín (Quique Galetto file)

Choose Vence led an investigation by which she already imposed a ban on leaving the nation for 5 individuals, together with the mayor of San Martín, Fernando Moreira. The opposite persons are José Maria Fernández, Hector Rey, Lorena Altamira and Marta Beatriz Pastor, who can be workers of the municipality. They had been additionally ordered to seem in court docket from the first to the fifth of every month.

Week in the past, the workplace of the president of the Deliberative Council was raided within the framework of the identical case. The official died shortly after. The court docket ordered procedures in quest of documentation to check personnel lists and cross them with names of beneficiaries of social plans.

From the Municipality they appeared stunned. As famous, in March there was a earlier raid and the Ministry collaborated and appeared within the case to ask to be a plaintiff, however was rejected by the choose and the Federal Court docket. And now, throughout the framework of a brand new process, the ban on leaving the nation for the mayor appeared, they are saying within the mayor’s entourage. “It’s not understood why the federal justice system acts, it isn’t understood why such a measure relating to the prohibition of leaving the nation is carried out.”

Additionally they highlighted that “earlier than the mayor there’s a chain of signatures, the director of Human Sources, the Authorized and Technical secretary, and many others. A mayor indicators dozens of decrees per day, as established by the municipal natural legislation of the Province of Buenos Aires and the Court docket of Accounts of the Province of Buenos Aires.”

Julio Rigau, the chief of the accused PJ

The case had the same origin to that of Julio “Chocolate” Rigau, who fell on September 9 on the ATM situated in Plaza San Martín within the metropolis of La Plata with 49 debit playing cards, $1,200,000 in money and dozens of receipts. Justice established that the playing cards belonged to “gnocchi” of the Buenos Aires Legislature and the Deputy Director of Personnel of the Buenos Aires Legislature, Claudio Albini, and his son, Facundo Albini, additionally ended up in jail.

The Justice of the Peace within the case understood that they had been a part of a bootleg affiliation devoted to defrauding the provincial State, however warned that “none of what was perpetrated might escape the information and management of those that handle the modules and permit the hiring.” On this method, he focused legislators of all political stripes and the authorities of the Chamber of Deputies.