In the absence of official confirmation, everything seems to indicate that Marcelo D’Alessandro will leave his position as Minister of Security of the City of Buenos Aires and that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta will replace him with Eugenio Burzaco. Thus, a management marked by the scandal of D’Alessandro’s chats with federal judges and directors of Grupo Clarín would end, which is why he is on leave.
Larreta, was finalizing the preparations for the landing of Burzaco in the Buenos Aires security portfolio. He is the first civilian chief of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police (the security force that preceded the City Police). He arrived at that position after the scandal of the illegal wiretapping of relatives of victims of the attack on the AMIA that determined the departure of Jorge “El Fino” Palacios from the leadership of the force during the management of Mauricio Macri in the City.
In 2015, when Macri arrived at the Casa Rosada, he named Burzaco (son of journalist Raúl Burzaco) as Secretary of Security, in a role subordinate to that of the then minister of that portfolio and current president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, with whom she maintained a link of permanent internal confrontation until her removal from office two years later. After that he settled in Bariloche and planned to compete for the mayorship of that Rio Negro city.
Shortly before Eugenio Burzaco was Bullrich’s number two in the Nation, his brother Alejandro was involved in the FIFAgate scandal. Last January, he admitted paying 32 million dollars to Conmebol leaders.
Meanwhile, D’Alessandro is still on leave until April 6. The decision to leave the Ministry of Security for three months came after the leak of an alleged exchange of messages between the minister and federal judges and chamberlains.as well as with directors of Grupo Clarín, in which a maneuver was allegedly designed to cover up a trip that those involved shared to the residence of businessman Joe Lewis in Lago Escondido, Río Negro.
Also, a subsequent leak of Telegram chats exposed alleged conversations between D’Alessandro and Silvio Roblesone of the advisors to the president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti, in which they discussed the decision for co-participation of the City and the integration of the Council of the Magistracy.
