2023-07-13 03:21:00
He Ministry of Justice arranged the intervention of the foundation of the pre-candidate for president for Together for Change, Patricia Bullrich, due to alleged accounting irregularities. “The Minister of Economy Sergio Massa decided to continue attacking me”, pointed out the former Minister of Security.
He Institute for Strategic Studies in Security Civil Association (IEES) was intervened this Wednesday morning and for 180 business days. The measure was requested by the General Inspector of Justice, Ricardo Nissen, who was a lawyer for Máximo and Florencia Kirchner in the Hotesur case.
“The measure seeks to normalize the institutional situation of the entity, after the summary proceedings carried out by the General Inspectorate of Justice verify accounting irregularities and the development of actions unrelated to the corporate purpose for which it was authorized to function”, indicated from the Ministry of Justice.
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For her part, the former president of the PRO said on Twitter: “The Minister of Economy Sergio Massa decided to continue attacking me, this time through the Minister of Justice, instead of dealing with runaway inflation and the calamitous state of the economy.”
“I want to share with the people that we are strong, because the attacks will continue in the coming weeks. They seek to pay attention to their disastrous management and the misery that Kirchnerism generates,” Bullrich posted.
Patricia Bullrich.
The Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, revealed that “from the IEES, actions outside its corporate purpose were deployed and it was used for purposes other than those for which it was granted authorization to operate.” According to the investigation, the IEES carried out proselytizing activitiessuch as campaign lunches and dinners, actions outside the NGO.
“Accounting and administrative irregularities were also detected: an exponential growth of income and expenses was verified of the IEES, going in a few months from not having funds to cover current expenses, to collecting more than 90 million pesos”, added the official information.
Irregularities detected in the Patricia Bullrich foundation
An income and expenditure system designed to finance political proselytizing actions, “in frank contradiction with the authorized corporate purpose”. Accounting and administrative irregularities. “There was an exponential growth in IEES income and expenses. From not having funds to cover current expenses, he went on to collect more than 90 million pesos”. That increase is coincident with political activities deployed by Bullrich. Payments of telephone bills linked to lines registered under the Union for Freedom party. The IEES carried out proselytizing activities, such as campaign lunches and dinners, promoted by Patricia Bullrich and payments to Gerardo Milman.
The IEES statement
On its website, the Institute for Strategic Studies in Security Civil Association published a download, in which they stated that “the media were informed before the Institute” and that “the resolution has not yet been published in the Official Gazette.”
Also They assured that the accounting irregularities are false. “Since 2014, the Ministry of Justice has not intervened in a civil entity. We do not rule out that the intervener responds to persecutory purposes”, they commented and pointed out that “the measure provided is absolutely exceptional”.
Also, in relation to the growth of income, they exclaimed that “it is known that any entity requires resources to achieve its social purposes.” “But it seems that this was not enough for the head of the IGJ who wanted to dye the main opposition candidate for president in Argentina with a dark tint and intimidate to any person who wanted to participate in their activities”, they accused.
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“The increase in the activity of the Institute, and therefore in its income, can be explained by the simple fact that during the years 2016-2019 many of its members were dedicated to public service. Then the pandemic came and with the return to normality, the planned seminars and courses began to be deployed. It is worth remembering that in 2022 there were no elections and in 2021 Patricia Bullrich did not participate in them. Consequently, the arguments of the use of the resources of a civil entity for an electoral campaign lack any foundation”, they postulated.
The foundation explains that the amounts paid by companies “do not have anything striking”, since they are courses and seminars given to their staff. They also reported that take the case to international organizations“noting the seriousness of the events described that only seek to endanger democracy and the electoral process in Argentina.”
“What is sought is to control, restrict, potentially criminalize and close NGOs that are not related to the Kirchner government”, they exposed, calling the portfolio of Soria “Ministry of Injustice”.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Mauricio Macri expressed their solidarity with Patricia Bullrich
Faced with the intervention of Patricia Bullrich’s foundation, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, with whom he develops a fierce internal confrontation with the PASO, expressed his solidarity with the situation and published on Twitter: “The dirty campaigns They have no place in our democracy. Using the State to persecute opponents is absolutely unacceptable. All my support to Patricia Bullrich. On December 10 this is over, ”she promised.
For his part, former President Mauricio Macri analyzed: “One more outrage by the IGJ and the Ministry of Justice, this time against Patricia Bullrich and her foundation in the middle of the campaign. I am glad that it is not long before they stop using the AFIP, the IGJ and State agencies in order to attack and chase to the opponents”.
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