2023-12-20 22:00:14
Businessman Gerardo Werthein, owner of one of the most important holding companies in the country, could suffer questions about his role as Argentine ambassador in Washington in the Senate, following a judicial complaint for procedural fraud that he is processing in the Economic and Complex Crimes Unit. of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rosario.
The man that Javier Milei wants to lead diplomatic relations with the United States and one of his main campaign contributors, was investigated on April 17 of this year as a primary participant in the alleged simulation of documents that declared a debt of 84 million euros had been canceled. dollars in favor of Rosario businessman Leo Grinspunch, within the framework of the sale of Cachamai. A case that at the time reached the Rosario newspapers.
The case is being investigated by the deputy prosecutor of the Economic and Complex Crimes Unit, Mariano Rios Artacho. In the investigation, Werthein chose to appear by zoom, since, as is clear in the case, he has a legal and fiscal address in Punta del Este, Uruguay, another of the points that Kirchnerism alleges to question his appointment.
Although Kirchnerism was already analyzing questioning Werthein’s appointment for having paid for the private plane that transported the President on his visit to North American territory after the runoff, the information that reached the main offices of the Senate opens up more delicate situations, because it involves very controversies such as the takeover of Telecom by Werthein during the government of Néstor Kirchner.
The complaint includes negotiations with counterdocuments that link the sale of Cachamai and other assets with the takeover of Telecom, which at the time generated a huge stir because Kirchner’s interest in the maneuver was quite visible.
Werthein tried to justify the use of the plane and they brought out Kun Agüero to defend him
The legal classification attributed to Werthein in the request for indictment maintains that the businessman is suspected of having committed the crime of “fraud by deceptive subscription of a document.”
LPO agreed to the request for an investigation indicating that on April 9, 2012, “a debt recognition and payment commitment agreement” was signed between Leo Grinschpun and Daniel Werthein, representing Group W, for $84 million. Three annexes that specified forms and amounts to settle the payments were also signed that same day.
A week later, a new annex was signed that slightly reduced the debt. There it was stated that the amount had been calculated incorrectly: the sum was not USD 84060197 but USD 84015499.
Already in March 2015, this agreement led to a lawsuit before the Civil and Commercial District Court of First Instance of the 7th Nomination of Rosario, in order to judicially obtain the collection of what is owed. Lawyer Leopoldo Hernández appeared on behalf of Grinspuch, but Matías Scalona also attended the judicial office months later, requesting intervention for having been drafter and negotiator of the agreement and demanding his fees of 1 million dollars.
Werthein responded on October 1 of that year with a criminal complaint against Grinspuch before prosecutor Carlos Stornelli in the federal jurisdiction of Comodoro Py, in what was interpreted as an attempt to remove the case from the Rosario courts. In any case, Werthein delivered a “counterdocument” that Grinspuch would have signed with the intention of recording the payment of the rights that emerged from the 2012 agreements.
That text, it is assumed, would contain an agreement canceling the debt that curiously they would have recognized on the same day.
When the creditor died, in January 2016, the children appeared in the case but assigned their rights in the litigation to Scalona. Werthein then expanded his complaint in federal court against Grinspuch’s heirs and Scalona himself, considering him the “architect of the scam.”
During the process, Scalona would have testified that the agreement between Grinspuch and Werthein was due to debts of the business group with the creditor for sales of real estate for use by the holding company, loans of bonds and money, within the framework of the sale of the Cachamai company.
At the beginning of 2017, Matías Scalona requested to be considered a plaintiff against Daniel Werthein “and others” and maintained that the businessman’s story, where he says that on the same day the debt was recognized, the debt cancellation document was signed, is false. that it is unusual and impossible to sustain that on the same day the parties sign two frankly contradictory documents and that it is undoubtedly demonstrative that criminal proceedings were initiated on the basis of a document obtained by deception.
But in March of that year, Scalona completely reversed his position and dropped the complaint against Werthein. He stated that he accessed “more information”, understood that “things were not as he had been informed and Werthein had no debts to Grinspuch.” Werthein then also declined criminal action.
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