Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti prosecuted five people for being part of a criminal organization dedicated to making fraudulent requests to the Argentine State for the collection of reparations for victims and relatives of the last dictatorship.
One of the defendants is Adrián Martínez Moreira, who for years has presented himself as the son of a couple of disappeared Paraguayan militants, which allowed him to contact victims of State terrorism, enter their homes and gain their trust. He even went as far as to give data that made the Mothers and Grandmothers who have been looking for their loved ones a long time in vain. Along with a team of lawyers, he presented himself as a facilitator when it came to managing reparation policies.
According to Capuchetti, the kickoff for all this criminal maneuver was a testimonial statement that Martínez Moreira gave in the case about the Condor Plan in 2013. To support his lies, he adulterated the statement of Adriana Calvo, a survivor of the Camps Circuit. Although Calvo’s testimony – one of the most shocking characters in the Argentine film, 1985 – has been known for almost 40 years, Moreira managed to fabricate a statement and say that the survivor had given it before the German court in 1999. When Moreira hatched this maneuver, Calvo had been dead for some time.
His colleagues from the Association of Disappeared Ex-Detainees (AEDD) denounced the falsehood. Moreira redoubled the bet and denounced Carlos Lordkipanidse, who, at that time, presided over the AEDD. As Capuchetti reconstructed, this would be one of the characteristics of the organization: to make a circular displacement of the evidence and multiply complaints.
The judge also prosecuted the lawyer Omar García and three other women, Leticia Gaete, Nicole Garrido Piris and Susana Claudia Feldman. The Human Rights Secretariat, which acted as a plaintiff in the case, welcomed the judge’s resolution and considered that it was a well-founded ruling.
