The federal judge Ariel Lijo gave rise to a series of evidentiary measures requested by the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicitain order to investigate the mortgage loans that the Nation Bank awarded to libertarian officials and leaders. In turn, he asked the General Auditor of the Nation (AGN) to carry out a comprehensive audit of the policy for granting credit instruments in the aforementioned banking entity.
Federal Judge Lijo’s decision came after a ruling in which the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested that the complaints against authorities of Banco Nación be investigated (B.N.) and against beneficiaries of the credits. The complaints point, on the one hand, to the former president of the BN, Daniel Tillardand the beneficiaries of the credits, on the other. Some of the latter are Federico Furiasecurrent Secretary of Finance, who would have received a loan of at least 300 million pesos; Felipe Nunezadvisor to the Ministry of Economy, who would have received a similar sum.
Faced with this, Lijo ordered last Tuesday that the AGN identify, as soon as possible, possible irregularities in the granting of the credits and who would have been the recipients. The magistrate wants this analysis work to cover the period from December 2023 to the present; That is, from the beginning of Javier Milei’s Government, onwards.
In another resolution, Judge Lijo granted the measures requested by the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicitain an opinion to which he agreed Time.
First of all, he ordered that the president of the Central Bank be asked, Santiago Bausiliwhich provides the legal and regulatory framework, circular communications and any instrument that regulates the procedure for granting mortgage loans in force for banking entities.
The loans that are in the spotlight
The request for information also reaches BN itself. Pollicita and Lijo want the entity to send the client files and folders corresponding to the loans granted to Furiase, Nuñez; to Juan Pablo Carreirabetter known as Juan Doe on social networks, national director of Digital Communication of the Government, who would have received a loan of $112 million.
He also requested the same data from some national deputies of Freedom Advances as Lorena Villaverde and Mariano Camperoalso named in the complaints.
Time He announced days ago that the judicial push for complaints for alleged irregularities in the granting of mortgage loans was expected. In this way, Lijo and Pollicita, who are investigating the Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni for illicit enrichment and his flights abroad, were left in charge of a new sensitive cause for the libertarian administration.
“It is necessary to promote the investigation to determine whether, from the management of Daniel Tillard’s Banco de la Nación Argentina, based on non-observance of the specific financial regulations on the matter and/or granting undue privileges, irregular mortgage loans were illicitly granted, thus benefiting employees and/or public officials and/or legislators, to the detriment of the entity’s coffers,” the prosecutor stated in his opinion.
The complaints for alleged irregularities were filed days ago in Comodoro Py after the programmer Andres Snitcofsky and the law student Sebastian Waisbrot will publish the platform “How much do they owe?” This is a list of political leaders with details of their credit situation, based on the public report of the Central Bank.
As this media learned, there was already a presentation by BN representatives before the Justice, making themselves available for the investigation. Likewise, on social networks there were several of the indicated leaders who came out to deny the accusations of alleged irregularities in credit granting.
One of them was the Tucumán deputy Campero, who called the accusation malicious and said that he never benefited from a million-dollar loan. “This is not a discretionary or exceptional credit, but rather a mortgage line in UVA (Purchasing Value Units) open to any Argentine citizen who qualifies,” he said in X.
Along the same lines, he spoke Alejandro Bongiovanni days ago. The deputy pointed out that “it is false that I took out a mortgage debt with ‘different’ or ‘preferential’ rates or terms than the general ones.” In his case, he explained that it was at a 4.5% rate, and that it was a UVA credit tied to inflation.
Now, with the investigation launched, the judge and the prosecutor will have to determine if there was indeed any reprehensible irregularity.
