2023-12-23 03:15:00
The Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against a thousand public employees in the province of Neuquén that according to a complaint, They received social plans in addition to their salary.
The presentation was made the Neuquén State Prosecutor’s Office with the signature of its owner, Raúl Gaitán, and his representative, Gustavo Kohon. There are two and a half pages with a succinct summary of the facts, and as an annex provided the list of employees and the result of an audit carried out by the General Accounting Office of the province.
The audited period goes from January to December 2022. According to the provisional conclusion, public employees received the Transitory Social Subsidy; Subsidy for Unemployment and Subsidy for Three Family Programs improperly, because these payments are incompatible with the status of state employees.
The amount of the maneuver
Regarding the amount of the maneuver, The estimate is that it was for 117,910,831.96 pesos.
The State Prosecutor’s Office (an organization that represents the interests of the public treasury) delivered documentation to the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office (dependent on the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Judiciary, which investigates criminal acts). an annex with the identities of the employees.
By transcendence it is known that There are at least 700 people, although the final number would be around or exceed a thousand., and the majority would belong to the former Ministry of Social Development. In the same unofficial way it emerges that the bulk He entered that portfolio during the management of Mariano Gaidocurrent mayor of Neuquén.
Names that repeat
Some of the employees who also received subsidies They are already listed as defendants in the investigation of the debit card scam. They are part of the 31 accused of illicit association.
Among them, two of those accused of being ringleaders: Marcos Ariel Osuna, with preventive detention, and Néstor Pablo Sánz, with house arrest.
By filing the complaint, the state prosecutor’s office suggested that a new file be openedregardless of the main cause of the scams, which would mean four investigations underway.
The four investigations
La original, the scam with social plans that investigates acts committed with debit cards between September 2021 and July 2022, for an amount exceeding 153 million pesos, with 31 defendants, five of them as heads of the illicit association, two with preventive detention and one with house arrest.
The Social Plans II in which the similar maneuver is investigated but committed with checks intended for the payment of social plans. Covers efforts of the Ministry of Social Development prior to that of Abel Di Luca.
And the Social Plans III that was opened after Néstor Pablo Sánz’s declaration of repentance: includes more people and also a longer period of time.
Deadline until July 2024
The most advanced investigation is Social Plans I. The prosecution led by Pablo Vignaroli with Juan Manuel Narváez requested and achieved a period of 8 more months, until July 2024to present his request for elevation to trial.
Until then, move forward with accounting and computer skills about electronic devices that were kidnapped from the defendants.
In Social Plans II and III charges have not yet been filed.
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