The Argentine justice frozen the assets and lifted the fiscal and banking secrecy of former President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) and several of his collaborators, as part of an investigation into alleged corruption regarding the contracting of State insurance during his Government, sources confirmed this Wednesday. judicial.
Federal judge Julián Ercolini, in charge of room 11 of the national Federal Criminal and Correctional Court, ordered the general inhibition of Fernández’s assets and lifted the tax and banking secrecy on his accounts in the case that investigates whether the president favored , for contracting State insurance, to the husband of his private secretary.
Ercolini’s measure also covers another 32 people, former officials, companies and cooperatives that are being investigated, who will now not be able to sell or dispose of their assets.
The decision covers the intermediary Héctor Martínez Sosa and his wife María Cantero, Fernández’s secretary, a link that, for the judge, raises the suspicion that it determined the former president’s role in insurance intermediation between state entities and Nación Seguros.
Fernández is accused of a scandal related to the contracting of insurance by public organizations during his Government.
Fernández is being investigated for alleged irregularities regarding a decree he signed in December 2021, by which he ordered that all public organizations must contract insurance with Nación Seguros, from the state-owned Banco Nación, in which friends of the former president as intermediaries charging millionaire commissions.
Despite not needing managers to contract these insurances, the public organizations used the husband of their secretary and his friend, Martínez Sosa, as an intermediary, who also appears as a creditor of the former president in his sworn statements.
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