Vice President Cristina Kirchner and her two children, Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, they got an extraordinary judicial triumph. They were dismissed in two of the corruption cases what most worried them, avoiding the oral and public trial, the last instance that they had to go through like the rest of the citizens who are in a procedural scene just like them. The cases for which they will not be tried are known as “Hotesur” and “Los Sauces”. In both they were processed as part of an illicit association that he used his private commercial companies to launder money of illegal origin, supposedly from public funds.
The Oral and Public Court (TOF) Number 5 resolved his dismissal despite the fact that the prosecutor before the court Diego Velasco had issued an opinion in which he categorically rejected the proposal made by the Kirchners’ lawyers, among whom Carlos Beraldi stands out, requesting the annulment of this process.
Velasco thus defended not only the norms of Argentine law, but also the work and evidence accumulated after years of instruction.
The “Hotesur” and “Los Sauces” cases worried the vice president because in both cases, not only was she prosecuted, but also her children, the deputy Máximo and her sister Florencia Kirchner. The latter does not enjoy the protection of privileges such as her mother and brother, vice and national legislator.
Two of the three TOF 5 judges voted in favor of benefiting the K family: they are Daniel Obligado and Adrián Grünberg. The magistrate expressed herself in dissent Adriana Palliotti. Both Obligado and Grünberg are identified with the judicial line linked to Kirchnerism, Legitimate Justice.
The journalist from Clarion Lucía Salinas had anticipated that both judges were inclined to resolve the dismissal of the Kirchners, perhaps, because on November 30, Dr. Grünberg left his position at TOF 5: he was substituting it.
The Kirchners they were then dismissed without being tried.
It’s about the step more “pornographic” of the impunity plan of the vice president that since he returned to power focuses a good part of its energies on “closing” or “suspending” investigations against him.
He achieved scenarios similar to the current one in the very sensitive cause of Memorandum with Iran. Before the oral and public trial the judges “saved” her. Although with another legal thickness, a similar conclusion also had the case against him known as “future dollar”.
Faced with a new request from the vice-presidential lawyer Beraldi to annul this case, the prosecutor Velazco wrote an opinion in which reject the arguments that were finally accepted by judges Grümberg and Obligado. Velasco wrote, among 72 more pages, this paragraph: “The questions raised by the defense they carry a total affectation to the principle of contradiction, transparency and publicity of the jurisdictional acts, and the rules of the debate for pretending a fiction of judgment… ”.
The name “Hotesur” refers to the commercial company that manages the largest hotel of all the Kirchners have, the Alto Calafate. The case “Los Sauces” is called that way because that is the name of a real estate company of the K family that has all the characteristics of being just a shell company.
Both files were joined in the same oral and public trial, finally unborn, due to similar maneuvers.
The Kirchners suddenly decided to acquire a hotel chain. There are three in El Calafate and one in El Chaltén.
Nestor Kirchner paid almost five million dollars for Alto Calafate to acquire this tourist trade from men with a lot of experience in the hotel market who got rid of this southern business because it generated losses.
Kirchner he lied when it became known that he had bought that hotel. He let it be known that he had paid $ 2 million for him. It was more expensive. The other two Calafate hotels owned by the Kirchners are “Las Dunas”, and “Los Sauces”, which borders the vice house in that city. The fourth, “La Aldea”, is in the city of “El Chaltén”.
The Kirchners they bought those hotels but never managed them. They gave the management to their partner, Lázaro Báez, who created a company especially to manage them, called Valle Miter. Justice found countless pieces of evidence showing how Báez paid the Kirchners exorbitant rents for those hotels, going at a loss but enriching them. While at the same time he was winning questioned public works contracts for multimillion dollar amounts.
The company “Hotesur” never had legal or fiscal address in order, according to state regulations. Their balance sheets were never delivered under a K mandate to the body in charge of controlling these crucial papers. It was also not reported if the directory changed. And who made it up.
The money flowed through the Kirchners’ hotels to their private accounts while the tenant Lázaro also became rich thanks to the state managed by his landlords.
The judges who investigated this plot They were able to determine how the Banco de Santa Cruz issued several Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs); They are alerts that are reported when silver movements are detected that could be generated by illegal activities. They were never investigated. The hotel “Los Sauces” was not rented by Báez. It was rented by another family with companies that benefited from public works K, the Relats. They were also tenants at a loss but high-profit builders.
The “Los Sauces” case is not named after the homonymous hotel of the now-dismissed political-hotel family. In that trial, the Kirchners were also accused of laundering money but not through tourism ventures: “Los Sauces” is also called a real estate With which the vice family bought several properties in the Federal Capital, among other places, to rent them. The two biggest tenants, once again paying rent that is too high for the national market, they were Báez and another businessman who made his fortune grow in the splendor years of the Kirchner administration, Christopher Lopez.
The real estate “Los Sauces” has no address, no offices, is not, but generated profits.
You have only one employee. It is Ramón Ángel Díaz Díaz, the gardener who takes care of the magnificent park that the vice owns in her house in El Calafate.
Florence Kirchner she was involved in these two schemes and almost six million dollars were seized from her.
Now will they be returned to you?
The irregularities between the K hotel chain and its real estate are endless. There are documents, testimonies, evidence that could have complicated them in an oral trial and public that, by decision of two judges, will not be done.
Neither in “Hotesur”, nor in “Los Sauces”, nor in the oral instance of these trials, what was seen seemed to be what it was.
Behind the real estate power of the Kirchners and their partners were “ghost” companies, although with full bank accounts.
The trial that the vice and her children had to face, except for the actions of the prosecutor Velasco and Judge Palliotti, was also going to be a process like the rest of those that take place in an Argentina where everyone is equal before the law.
There will be no trial.
The Kirchners dismissed without giving explanations to the citizens and especially to the Judicial Power that cornered them in these cases.
Enough. For them.
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