The lawyer for the union leader of the Uocra Juan Pablo “Pata” Medina said on Wednesday that he had “no doubts about the direct responsibility” of the former Buenos Aires governor María Eugenia Vidal “in setting up cases” against her client, and anticipated that when they are met the proceedings requested by the prosecutor Ana Russo “will analyze” request the investigation for the former president and current national deputy.
In addition, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, officials and legislators lashed out at the current national deputy of Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) by agreeing that “she could not ignore” the activities of the judicial table that functioned during her tenure. in Buenos Aires territory.
“We have no doubts about the direct responsibility of María Eugenia Vidal in setting up the cases against Juan Pablo Medina,” lawyer César Albarracín, plaintiff in the case investigating the setting up of “Buenos Aires judicial table,” told Télam. position of the federal judge of La Plata Ernesto Kreplak.
“For our part, we are going to focus on his obvious responsibility and once the procedures required by the prosecutor and those ordered by the judge have been completed, we will analyze his call for investigation as head of the illicit association that is being investigated,” the lawyer remarked.
For Albarracín, Vidal “lied publicly and that constitutes one more indication against him”, and considered that the former Buenos Aires governor would have acted “not only through her ministers, the undersecretary of Justice Adrián Grassi, the mayor (of La Plata Julio) Garro and the senator of Together for Change (JxC) Juan Pablo Allan, but also with the intervention of the Buenos Aires attorney Julio Conte Grand “.
“Conte Grand guaranteed that three arrest warrants are imposed in the province against my client,” he said about the attorney for the province of Buenos Aires.
“We are going to focus on his evident responsibility and once the procedures required by the prosecutor and those ordered by the judge have been completed, we will analyze his call for investigation as head of the illicit association that is being investigated”César Albarracín-Lawyer of the “Pata” Medina
The case was initiated after a complaint filed before the Federal Justice of La Plata by the AFI inspector, Cristina Caamaño, after an audiovisual record was found in the offices of that body about a meeting held in June 2017 at the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Banco Provincia, where officials from the Vidal government, agents from the AFI, Garro and construction businessmen discussed the setting up of cases against union leaders.
At that meeting, the then Buenos Aires Minister of Labor, Marcelo Villegas, told those present that he would like to have a “Gestapo” – the political police of the Nazi regime – to take action against the unions.
This Tuesday, the prosecutor Russo asked Judge Kreplak to order a crossover of calls between the telephones that Vidal used in 2017 and those of former officials of his government who were present at the “Buenos Aires judicial table”
According to the film record of the meeting, Villegas gave the businessmen instructions on how to file complaints against union members, and ensured that the Attorney General was aware of the maneuvers.
This Tuesday, the prosecutor Russo asked Judge Kreplak to order a crossover of calls between the telephones that Vidal used in 2017 and those of former officials of his government who were present at a meeting at the Buenos Aires headquarters of Banco Provincia in which they spoke to promote criminal cases against Medina.
“She agreed with the Agency to install bases in the province” “Leopoldo Moreau
He did so in an opinion in which he imputed all those attending that meeting held on June 15, 2017, including the mayor of La Plata Julio Garro, the former Buenos Aires deputy secretary of Justice Adrián Grassi; the former Minister of Infrastructure Roberto Gigante and the Buenos Aires senator Juan Pablo Allan.
In a first request, the judicial official had charged Villegas, but expanded her accusation on other 15 people who participated in the meeting, including the mayor of La Plata Julio Garro, and affirmed that she will investigate those who were mentioned in that meeting.
“I ask that we take dimension and put into perspective what happened in the meeting that is seen in the video when Vidal was governor. There was talk of a ‘Gestapo’. It is of such tremendous gravity”Axel Kicillof
Meanwhile, this Tuesday, in a session of the Senate of the province of Buenos Aires, the search of Allan’s offices was authorized, as part of a measure that had been required by Kreplak.
On the other hand, Kicillof, described as “disgusting” the existence of a judicial table to harm union leaders during Vidal’s administration.
“I ask that we take dimension and put into perspective what happened in the meeting that is seen in the video when Vidal was governor. There was talk of a ‘Gestapo’. It is of such tremendous gravity,” the governor analyzed in statements to Radio 10.
Caamano deduced that those meetings that Vidal officials had with intelligence agents and businessmen were filmed with the purpose of “holding” the participants “so that they could not get their feet off the plate.”
“Vidal’s silence for ten days was because she felt discovered in her handling”Cristina Caamano
“Vidal’s silence for ten days was because she felt discovered in her dealings. They realized that the same thing that happened at the national level with the Nation’s judicial table was replicated in the province of Buenos Aires,” said Caamano.
The intervener explained that during the Cambiemos government there were 120 encrypted telephones in the agency, bought in the United States and of which “half were handed over to agents and the rest to national government officials and friends of power.”
The national deputy of the Frente de Todos (FdT) Leopoldo Moreau described this Wednesday as “a big lie” that Vidal had no relationship with the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) and denounced that during his tenure in the province of Buenos Aires “he agreed the installation of bases “of the organism in that jurisdiction.
“Playing the brave on television is not going to exempt her from the explanations she has to give in court”Deputy María Teresa García
“The whole theory that Vidal had nothing to do with the AFI is a great lie and an absolute falsehood. She agreed with the Agency to install bases in the province,” Moreau said in statements made to Uncover Radio.
The president of the block of senators of the Frente de Todos (FdT) in the Buenos Aires upper house, María Teresa García, considered this Wednesday that the former governor said she was going to put an end to the mafias and in truth “she had one installed in her own government.” .
“It was a governor who kept saying that she came to end the mafias, that she was ‘the lioness’ and acted as the most transparent thing in the world. But none of this was true. She justified her minister (of Labor, Marcelo Villegas) . Being brave on television is not going to exempt her from the explanations she has to give in court, “Garcia said in statements to Radio AM750.
