The General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) ordered this Monday the “limited state supervision” of the company Caputo Hermanos SA, imposed a period of five working days to make known its commercial books and applied a fine of 100,000 pesos for each of the 18 years in which the financial statements of the company were not presented, from 2005 to 2022 inclusive.
This was established in a resolution of the IGJ to which Télam had access, in which it was explained that the company was under the magnifying glass of the agency after it transpired an alleged business relationship with Jonathan Morel’s carpentrythe referent of the Federal Revolution, now investigated by the justice system, in the framework of a case for alleged incitement to violence.
In the resolution signed by the Inspector General of Justice (IGJ), Ricardo Nissen, it was established “to order limited state supervision of the company Caputo Hermanos SA by this IGJ in accordance with the terms of article 301, subsection 2 of Law 19550.”
In the third point, it is solved, apply a fine to the company and its directors jointly and severally one hundred thousand pesos for each of the financial statements completed years whose presentation was omitted before the control body and it was pointed out that this happened every year from 2005 to date.
“Since its very constitution, which occurred in 2004, that is, more than 18 years ago, the company Caputo Hermanos SA has never presented its financial statements to this General Inspectorate of Justice”it was noted in the resolution.
The IGJ also noted that “it only registered its original authorities in 2004, the elected directory in 2005 and 2015 (fifteen years later) and 2021, failing to comply with said registration in 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2018.”
Caputo Hermanos SA is also under judicial investigation in the context of a criminal case: Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, at the request of prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, ordered last week the search of its offices in the cause in which different referents of the space known as the Federal Revolution are investigated.
The spokesperson for that space, Morel, and three other members of the Federal Revolution are detained and accused of having incited collective violence and tried to impose their ideas and combat those of others by means of force and instilling fear: one of their slogans was that of “persecuting Kirchnerists.”
It was in that file that it was detected that Caputo Hermanos, through two trusts, he had hired the Morel carpentry and had transferred millions of dollars in pesos: what the justice is investigating now is whether that money was destined for furniture or if it was used to finance the Federal Revolution.
In the resolution issued this Monday by the IGJ, it was pointed out that “since its very constitution, the company Caputo Humanes SA never registered its financial statements in this IGJ and the payment of the annual inspection fees was only paid from 2005 to 2008. , without paying subsequent fees”.
For this reason, it was explained “The company Caputo Hermanos SA was included by this body in the list of ‘inactive companies'”.
In this context, and after the firm came under the scrutiny of the justice system, on October 17, the IGJ tried to carry out an inspection at the headquarters of the company made up of members of the former official of the Government of Together for Change, Luis Caputo, but it was not possible.
According to the resolution, that day people linked to the company “prevented the inspectors from entering the registered legal address, so the ordered inspection visit could not be carried out,” although within the period established in the minutes drawn up in that opportunity “the representative of the company appeared, responding partially to what was requested”.
“Although the legal books were displayed and a simple copy of them was attached, the accounting books were not displayed and no copies were attached”it was reported in the resolution of the IGJ, where it was also noted that “the company owes the presentation to the Agency of the financial statements and related documentation from the year of its registration to date and only accompanied a simple copy of the financial statements from the year 2016 to 2021”.
“Those from the years 2018 to 2021 do not have the signature of the president of the company and in the year 2021 they do not have an auditor’s signature either. Although the Auditor, in his report dated June 9, 2022, reports that the Financial Statements arise of the accounting records kept in their formal aspects in accordance with the legal regulations, in the note presented by the company on October 19, 2022, an extension is requested stating that ´all the accounting information has not yet been passed in the accounting books'”, it was indicated.
“Regarding the questions related to the registrations and books of the trusts and of which companies Flavio Caputo is president, the attorney answered that he does not know,” the resolution described.
It was precisely through two trusts (Espacio Añelo and Santa Clara al Sur) that the payments that Caputo Hermanos made to Morel and his relatives would have materialized, according to the judicial file for which he is detained.
By parallel cord, last weekend, Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi rejected the requests for release made by both Morel and the other three defendants in the case pending before federal justice: Sabrina Basile, Gastón Guerra and Leonardo Sosa.
In that case, the prosecutor’s office that investigates the four detainees of the Federal Revolution group considered that a “criminal scheme” was set up to “impose” ideas and “combat those of others by force and fear” and that this sowed in society the escalation of “violence and hate” whose “most important act” turned out to be the attempted murder of the vice president.
Opposing the release proposal made by Morel’s defense, prosecutor Pollicita pondered that the group he is a member of planned to return to the streets after a month of inactivity, after Fernando Sabag Montiel tried to assassinate former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on September 1 at the door of her house.
“Despite the fact that Morel assured in his preliminary statement that the group was dissolved and that after the attempted murder of the Vice President the activity ceased, it appears from the transcripts of the wiretaps obtained in relation to his line that he communicated with SOSA and ‘SABRI’, punctually on the 13th day of the current month and year, in order to gather people in the Casa Rosada,” said the prosecutor.
“In particular, Morel referred to bringing together those affected by the K, to carry out a strong activity with a slogan or motto such as ‘We are not afraid of him’ or ‘They are not going to shut us up’use ‘mortuary bags with “their” faces’ and say ‘they want us dead and they are not going to get it’, clarifying that they would have guaranteed media coverage,” he said.
From the eavesdropping incorporated into the judicial file, it also emerged that Morel himself was pushing the new call: “Really, we haven’t done anything for a month and a half (…) And now they are with all this. So clearly doing nothing is not the solution. We have to do it and get stronger”.
