The Buenos Aires federal judge, Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, demanded this Friday that his colleague from La Plata, Ernesto Kreplak, refrain from intervening in the case in which the alleged actions of an anti-union “Gestapo” are being investigated and he demanded to send the file to Comodoro Py so that it can be processed along with another case of illegal espionage.
The magistrate maintained that the file that is being processed before the federal Justice of La Plata has elements of contact with the case for illegal espionage against political leaders, such as Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who would have been deployed during the government of Mauricio Macri .
To make that decision, the magistrate agreed with a statement made by the defense of the former director of Legal Affairs of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) during the Cambiemos government, Juan Sebastián de Stéfano, who had demanded that the case pass to the Buenos Aires federal courts.
Despite the contrary opinion of prosecutor Franco Picardi, the judge decided “to require the head of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3 of La Plata, Secretary No. 7, to refrain from continuing to deal with case No. 18,933/2021 and send it to this court”, according to the ruling that Télam agreed to.
about the cause
The cause of “Anti-union Gestapo” investigates a maneuver deployed by directors of the AFI, officials of the government of María Eugenia Vidal, leaders of Cambiemos and businessmen to achieve the arrest of the La Plata construction unionist, Juan Pablo “Pata” Medina.
For Judge Martínez de Giorgi, this file must be added to a previous one that began in Lomas de Zamora but later went to his court in Comodoro Py where alleged illegal espionage maneuvers of which Medina, among others, was a victim are investigated and in which De Stéfano also appears as a defendant.
“There will be room for what was requested by the incidentist and the accumulation of the files will be arranged, so that they can be processed before this headquarters,” Martínez de Giorgi said in a ruling in which he highlighted that “Sebastián De Stéfano and Diego Luis Dalmau Pereyra (former director of the AFI Counterintelligence) are accused and that Juan Pablo Medina appears as a victim in both”.
“A reading of the proceedings reveals that in file 18,933/2021, conduct is investigated that would have taken place in 2017, by three agents of the AFI, among other subjects, aimed at prosecuting the existing conflict situation around Juan Pablo Medina, relatives and the UOCRA Sectional La Plata”, reviewed the judge.
The magistrate maintained that “as a criminal hypothesis, the development of illegal intelligence tasks was included, carried out by members of the Federal Intelligence Agency on him and part of his environment” and added: “But in addition to that, it is observed that Many evidentiary proceedings took place in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (in the offices of the Federal Intelligence Agency, Casa Rosada and Banco Provincia headquarters located in CABA).”
“To this is added that it was determined that the meeting of 6/15/17, which motivated the complaint that gave rise to case 18933/21, was held in this city (headquarters of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires, located in Calle San Martín No. 137 in CABA),” he continued.
About the 2017 meeting
The meeting of June 15, 2017 was the one in which the accused former Minister of Labor of the Vidal government of Buenos Aires, Marcelo Villegas, made reference to his impossible desire to have a “Gestapo” in order to unleash the persecution against trade unionists. about which some businessmen complained.
“Believe me that, if I could have, and I am going to deny this to you anywhere, if I could have a Gestapo (the political police of Nazism), an onslaught force to end all unions, I would do it”, he said. He listens to Villegas say in the video of the meeting that gave rise to the investigation that is still being processed in La Plata.
The file
The file now demanded by a judge from Comodoro Py began with the discovery, among the digital files of the AFI, of the recording of a meeting held at the Bapro.
In addition to Villegas, the mayor of La Plata Julio Garro, the former Buenos Aires undersecretary of Justice Adrián Grassi, the provincial senator of Cambiemos Juan Pablo Allan and the former directors of the AFI De Stéfano (Legal Affairs), Dalmau Pereyra (Counterintelligence ) and Darío Biorci (former chief of staff of the AFI deputy directorate).
After the first prosecutions, that case began to move towards determining the possible criminal responsibility in the events of former President Mauricio Macri, former Governor of Buenos Aires María Eugenia Vidal and the former heads of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) of the Cambiemos government.
The information emerges from the final passage of the ruling signed last night by the federal judge of La Plata, Ernesto Kreplak, in which he indicated that “from the analysis of the facts, it follows that the plan whose criminal aspects have been sufficiently indicated was not limited to the people accused here”.
