Tomorrow, the Congressional Bicameral Intelligence subcommittee will receive the testimony of Darío Biorsi, an AFI official during the Together for Change administration, present at the meeting held at the Buenos Aires headquarters of Banco Provincia (Bapro) in 2017 in which there was talk of setting up cases against trade unionists.
At that meeting, Marcelo Villegas, María Eugenia Vidal’s Minister of Labor, and other members of the then Buenos Aires cabinet, together with intelligence agents and businessmen, analyzed the creation of a “judicial table” for this purpose.
In addition, Villegas expressed that he would have liked to have a “Gestapo” to control the unions.
For Tuesday of next week, meanwhile, the statement of the former manager of Institutional Relations of the Hernán Stella bank is also scheduled. A Bapro official recently declared before the subcommittee that the area in charge of her has been in charge of reserving the room where the meeting was held since 2016, for which she would have practically disassociated Stella from the event.
Another that is scheduled for Tuesday is Adrián Grassi, former Provincial Undersecretary of Justice, who was also part of that meeting.
Villegas ratified his refusal to attend the commission to explain the scope of his statements recorded in a 2017 video. The former minister had been summoned for Wednesday by that parliamentary body.
The former official gave the businessmen instructions on how they should act to prepare cases and confided in them that the Buenos Aires Attorney General, led by Julio Conte Grand, was aware of how these maneuvers should be carried out, according to what they were able to reconstruct. legislators based on testimonies that can be seen in that audiovisual record.
In a note sent to the commission, the former minister’s lawyer, Marcelo Rocchetti, justified the absence in which “Villegas could incriminate himself with his statements before that commission, which affects the rights and guarantees that assist him” in relation to the case in processing in the federal justice of La Plata, informed parliamentary sources.
Legislators investigate the scope of that meeting. The audio of that video – which constituted the beginning of the judicial and parliamentary investigation – revealed that some of the attendees alluded to the assured collaboration of a prosecutor and the Attorney General in the objective of harming trade unionists.
According to the investigation they are carrying out, the legislators were able to prove that the Banco Provincia room was reserved by the Vidal Government for a period of three days, and that the cameras were installed and dismantled the day before and the day after, respectively. when the encounter occurred.
In the court case, the federal judge of La Plata Ernesto Kreplak asked the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) to report if Vidal received an encrypted or satellite phone and, if so, if he returned it to that agency, sources reported. courts.
