The attorney general of the province of Buenos Aires, Julius Conte Grandaccused of endorsing the alleged maneuvers that were carried out in the so-called “judicial table” of Buenos Aires during the management of former governor María Eugenia Vidal, will attend this Thursday to appear before the Bicameral Commission for Monitoring Intelligence Activities of Congress, according to what was recorded parliamentary sources.
The Buenos Aires Attorney decided not to attend on January 18, when he had to appear for the first time, and offered to respond in writing the consultations of the legislators of the espionage subcommission, which depends on the Bicameral.
But nevertheless, from this parliamentary group that makes up Rodolfo Tailhade, the also Peronist Eduardo Valdés and the radical of Together for Change Miguel Bazze rejected that possibility.
The subcommission is carrying out an investigation based on the dissemination of a video in which a meeting held in June 2017 at the Buenos Aires headquarters of Banco Provincia is recorded, where officials of then-governor Vidal, intelligence agents and businessmen held a meeting in which they supposedly analyzed the formation of a judicial table to put together cases against union organizations.
At that meeting, where the mayor of La Plata, Julio Garro, was also present, the then Minister of Labor of the province of Buenos Aires, Marcelo Villegas, expressed to those present his desire to have “a Gestapo” – the political police of the Nazi regime – to persecute the unions, and also assured that the Attorney General -in charge of Conte Grand- was aware of the maneuvers that had to be orchestrated from that judicial table to build cases against the union leaders.
Based on a series of testimonies, the members of the subcommittee investigate whether that meeting took place at the request of the Governorate headed by Vidal.
On Wednesday declared before the subcommittee the former official of Banco Provincia (Bapro) Emilia Jaimewho admitted that at the request of the former head of that entity Juan Curuchet reserved the room for the meeting of the “judicial table” of 2017.
Parliamentary sources explained that Jaime said that he dedicated himself, among other functions as Curuchet’s secretary, to “sending the emails to reserve the places for certain meetings, with which he confirmed the information that emerged from the emails where he requests the multipurpose room for three days in which that meeting was recorded.
The spokespersons pointed out that the former official said that she was only “following orders from Curuchet” and that she was only in her duties at Banco Provincia with that official since she later retired from the institution.
Jaime requested the meeting room as it appears in the emails that the subcommittee has and that were delivered by the current authorities of Banco Provincia.
On the other hand, the former Manager of Institutional Resources Hernán Stella asked to postpone his statement until February due to “particular issues,” spokesmen told Télam.
Stella’s call aims to explain why there is no record of the entry of those who participated in the meeting of the so-called “Buenos Aires judicial table”, although sources linked to the case said that room did not depend on the former official but on another area of Bapro.
Last week, the subcommittee already made an ocular visit to the Buenos Aires headquarters of Bapro located in Miter and San Martín, in the downtown area of the city of Buenos Aires.
In this framework, the members of the body met with the former head of security of the building, Mariano Albito, who assured the legislators that historically “there were never cameras” in the place.
