The majority complaint representing the relatives of the crew members of the ARA San Juan submarine recalled that this Sunday will be the fifth anniversary of the first report that members of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), headed by Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani, made about the relatives of the sailors who died in the sinking of the submersible, which occurred in November 2017.
On January 15, 2108, AFI agents followed and photographed Malvina Vallejos -sister of Corporal Celso Vallejos- when she was with other family members at a mass that was held at the Mar del Plata naval base in honor of the sailors. of the ARA San Juan.
With these photos, a report and an intelligence file were generated by the agency, as stated in the file that is followed by the illegal espionage that was carried out on the relatives of the victims, according to the complaint by the lawyer Valeria. Careers.
Also that day, AFI personnel photographed an act that took place in the Deliberative Council of the Municipality of General Pueyrredon, to commemorate two months since the disappearance of the submarine in South Atlantic waters.
another report
AFI agents prepared another report on that act, in which they detailed that the Relatives asked the Navy authorities to intensify the search for the submarine and that then-President Mauricio Macri receive them.
“They began by getting into the mass, among the relatives, marking one of them to follow her, the chapel and the mass celebrated just two months after the disappearance of the ship and its 44 crew members, it was the place where they found the spiritual strength to continue looking for their loved ones, but they were not alone,” a statement from the complaint said.
In this sense, it was recalled that “the espionage lasted a year, and that everything was proven, through the ruling of three federal chamberlains of Comodoro Py, who admitted the intelligence tasks carried out on relatives and relatives, justifying them in the worst way, dictating the dismissal” of former President Mauricio Macri in that case.
“Five years of the sinking. Five years of espionage, we will follow the five-year periods that are necessary to obtain truth and justice against all those responsible”pointed out the representation headed by Carreras.
2020 facts
In September 2020, materials were found at the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) facilities documenting activities of monitoring and espionage of the relatives of the ARA San Juan sailors by agents of that agency.
2021
Cristina Caamaño, controller of the AFI when this discovery was made, denounced the fact before the Justice, and in December 2021 Martín Bava ordered the prosecution of Macri in a case in which the heads of the AFI during the government of Let’s change, Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani.
At the request of prosecutor Juan Pablo Curi, the cases of illegal espionage involving Mauricio Macri -among them the monitoring of the relatives of ARA San Juan- began to be processed in the federal courts of Comodoro Py.
2022
In July 2022, the judges of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber Mariano Llorens, Pablo Bertuzzi and Leopoldo Bruglia ordered the dismissal of Macri, Arribas and Majdalani, understanding that the activities carried out by AFI agents to gather information about the relatives had the purpose of preserve presidential security, a decision that the complaints representing the relatives appealed to the Court of Cassation, which must ratify or dismiss the dismissals that were issued in this case.
