The former director of Legal Affairs of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) during the management of Cambiemos, Juan Sebastian DeStefano He refused this Tuesday to testify before the federal judge of La Plata, Ernesto Kreplak, and left a letter in which he questioned the magistrate’s competence to intervene in the case by the so-called Buenos Aires Judicial Table.
De Stéfano appeared at 10.30 in the Federal Court of La Plata and refused to answer questions At the same time, he presented a discharge document in which He denied having participated in the “arming” of legal cases against trade unionists, including Juan Pablo “Pata” Medina de la Uocra, reported sources of the case.
The former Director of Legal Affairs of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) During the Cambiemos administration, he appeared at 10:30 a.m. in the Federal Court of La Plata and refused to answer questions, at the same time that he presented a defense brief in which he denied having participated in the “assembly” of legal cases against trade unionists, including Juan Pablo “Pata” Medina de la Uocra, informed sources of the case.
Through a letter of less than 20 pages, the former AFI official affirmed that the links and contacts that he had with the Judiciary were within the framework of his functions and that Medina had many complaints against him, so to investigate an alleged armed attack, it would be necessary to summon all those who participated in those files, as Télam was able to reconstruct.
De Stéfano maintained that the contacts he had with the Quilmes judge, Luis Armella, one of the magistrates who ordered Medina’s arrest at the time, were in the framework of his duties as an auxiliary of justice.
In that context, the former AFI agent, who now has a place in the directory of Subterráneos de Buenos Aires Sociedad del Estado (Sbase), threatened the judge with denouncing him before the Council of the Judiciary for having processed a complaint that began with the presentation of a video found in the AFI and demanded that he refrain from resolving his procedural situation because he understands that the case must process in the City of Buenos Aires.
Warning him about a possible complaint before the Council, De Stéfano invoked –without specifying them- other cases in which federal judges used videos of the former SIDE in their investigations and who later had to give explanations for it: in this case, however, the video that was presented in the AFI complaint itself is also taken as an element to be investigated.
The former head of the legal area of the AFI has a judicial strategy that exceeds the presentation Today: long before his investigation, he had already claimed before two judges from Comodoro Py (Ariel Lijo and Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi) that they claim the file that he is processing in La Plata.
Lijo has in his court a complaint filed by the trade unionists Hugo and Pablo Moyano against the Macri government for the alleged illegal setting up of legal cases (there De Stéfano was already dismissed) and Martínez de Giorgi investigates the alleged illegal espionage against politicians, trade unionists, journalists and social leaders, among others.
For the defense of the former AFI official, Kreplak is not competent to investigate the facts related to the alleged operation of a table made up of former officials from the province of Buenos Aires, authorities of the macrista AFI, mayors and businessmen who coordinated strategies to initiate cases to trade unionists, because he understands that since the spy center is involved, the issue should be investigated in the City of Buenos Aires.
This case began with a complaint filed by the current comptroller of the AFI, Cristina Caamañoafter a video recorded by a hidden camera about a meeting held on June 15, 2017 by Buenos Aires officials, AFI directors and construction entrepreneurs was found in the facilities of that agency.
Judge Kreplak, meanwhile, decided yesterday to reschedule for next April 5 the investigative statement of the Buenos Aires senator of Together for Change Juan Pablo Allan.
Allan was one of the attendees at that meeting, held at the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Banco Provincia, where the then Buenos Aires Minister of Labor, Marcelo Villegas, alluded to the fact that he would like to have a “Gestapo” to act against the trade unionists.
Kreplak called the 14 attendees at that meeting for questioning.
For next Thursday, the former director of Counterintelligence of the AFI, Diego Dalmau Pereyra, is summoned to La Plata.
