The Buenos Aires Legislature is in the eye of the storm due to the case of Julio “Chocolate” Rigau. The pointer of peronism He was intercepted by police personnel with 48 debit cards of parliament employees and more than one million pesos. From this, he began an investigation into the diversion of funds in the Buenos Aires province product of the complaint made by a homeless man.
Without a name to identify him, the subject spoke with Telenoche and claimed to have seen the leader on several occasions taking out money and managed to ask him for something to eat but he was denied: “I asked him for 100 pesos, something to eat and he told me ‘I don’t have any’ and I told him ‘you’re not a turncoat, look at a silver band you have, you steal from people,'” the subject said.
After this, he revealed what it was like the day Chocolate Rigau was arrested: «I was lying down and I heard that he was taking out a lot of money, a band of silver, from the first to the last teller. He took out cards, cards and cards. I ran to the checkpoint and told him, look, there’s a guy who has a bunch of cards from all the people, I don’t know who it is. The guy from the sentry box came walking here and called the patrolman,” he commented.
«They grabbed a band of cards and money. “I don’t know how he got two million,” the man added. However, the issue did not stop there because it was not the first time that he took money from workers in the province of Buenos Aires. «I had seen it before. I warned first, I called the patrol car and none came. The first time I followed him, he went straight to Plaza San Martín and he had a black and silver bag,” he said.
While all this was happening, he admitted that he was “pretending to be asleep” while listening to the noise of the ATMs withdrawing money over and over again. “I saw him for several days and I wondered what he was going to do with so much money,” completed the homeless man, who was the one who unleashed the investigation within the Buenos Aires Legislature and who now has the leader of Peronism as the accused.
