The former Minister of Productive Development Matías Kulfas was summoned as a witness for next Friday in the case that investigates alleged irregularities in the call for bids for the construction of the Nestor Kirchner gas pipelinein Dead Cow.
The decision was adopted by federal judge Daniel Rafecas, who lifted the summary secrecy that he imposed on Monday night in the case and ordered new evidence measures, including the summons to Kulfas under oath of truth for this Friday at 10 , in person at Comodoro Py 2002, informed Télam judicial sources.
For next Monday the 13th at 12, Rafecas also called as a witness former Enarsa official Antonio Pronsatowho resigned from his position as head of the Execution Unit of the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline in Enarsa, last Monday, May 30.
At the same time that the citations were known in court, the CEO of the Techint Group, Paolo Rocca, assured that there was no “direction or corruption” in the award, when presenting at the conference of the Argentine Business Association (AEA) that are taking place this Tuesday morning at the Sheraton de Retiro hotel.
Meanwhile, Tuesday of next week a hearing will be held with specialists from four companies that extract gas in Vaca Muerta, Pluspetrol, YPF, Tecpetrol and Total Austral to explain to the Rafecas court the “technical requirements” necessary for the construction of the gas pipeline.
This hearing set for that day at 10 a.m. will also be face-to-face and the objective is that experts appointed by the companies attend the court to answer questions about the “technical requirements required for the construction of the gas pipeline,” sources in the case explained.
Finally, the magistrate sent a new presentation order to the IEASA firm in search of additional information linked to another tender for the purchase of pipes in relation to the case.
The judge received last Monday from that state company, Integración Energética Argentina SA, digital copies of the tender that has just begun and that was under study by the magistrate.
The origin of the complaint
Rafecas was in charge of the case when he received by lottery the first of the three complaints that were filed in the federal Retirement courts derived from off-the-record information that originated in the Ministry that Kulfas commanded until this week and linked to alleged irregularities and direction of the call for bids for the work.
The content of the report in off’ that last Friday was released from the Ministry of Productive Development with questions to the bidding process -which is still open-, was denied by the company through a statement.
On Saturday, in its response, the state-owned company Energía Argentina (Ieasa) criticized the ‘off’ of Productive Development, considering it “a note lacking in technical knowledge” and denied that “a bidding document tailored to Techint” had been put together. , for requiring a sheet with 33 mm thickness and not 31 mm.
Precisely this will be one of the main points around which the hearing with experts from the companies now convened by the court will revolve next Tuesday, sources in the case explained.
