MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
“K” money funneling scam finally emerging: from 'sweet solidarity' to a convent
Argentine public opinion still hasn't been able to overcome last week's events: a civil engineer who has been working for the Kirchner couple since 1991 and managed some 130bn dollars in public works in that time is locked in a psychiatric ward awaiting charges after he was discovered trying to hide almost 9 million dollars cash and jewels in a rather secretive convent. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh, ho, ho, ho. Didn't we always say that she was bent? Didn't we always point to the disparity between her salary and her apparent income? The long-lost legal qualifications. The hotels with no guests. The vaults in which, according to testimony, full holdalls were/are stored. The flights of Tango 1 where large numbers of holdalls and suitcases were carried.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Isn't it about time she had another taste of “preferential” treatment? A special van, locked from the outside, to transport her from Santa Cruz to Buenos Aires. A special room in a special building with a suitable designation. Proper concern for her health and safety to the extent that the windows can't be opened and have bars over them, the lights can't be switched off, there is constant CCTV surveillance and the door is always kept locked from the outside.
From time to time she could have little “excursions”. To large rooms where lots of people would listen carefully to every word of her biography. Until, finally, she could listen to her whole “future” being outlined for her. She might, perhaps, spend a lot of that future reminiscing about the palaces she thought she would be buying.
The first paragraph in the article says it all... in pertinent part, “the investigation should be directed away from her family and Kirchnerites and geared to contractors, suppliers and other characters who tempted the engineer...”.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sure, I understand now. IF you offer corrupt government employees cash and other illegal compensation, so you can win contracts, and basically screw the taxpayer... it's NOT the government employee's fault. Wow, what a concept!
Let me emphasize... Yes, both sides of the corrupt deal need to be held accountable, and brought to justice, but only ONE SIDE was placed in a position of control to serve the people / government function. If he wasn't corrupt to begin with, the efforts to bribe him wouldn't have worked.
This is pathetic. It looks like so many people were involved, a few will eventually talk, and it's going to get uglier before it gets better.
Best wishes to all.
This is nothing more than an attempt by evil neo-liberalists to tarnish CFK's good reputation.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It doesn't have anything to do with her, she was a champion for the poor.
It's just a conspiracy and a lie.
The culture is corruption - this is the norm.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Honesty and diligence is the aberration in rg.
Most rgs have no experience with honesty or diligence.
@2 “ IF you offer corrupt government employees cash and other illegal compensation, so you can win contracts, and basically screw the taxpayer... it's NOT the government employee's fault. Wow, what a concept!”
Jun 18th, 2016 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0-- That is actually a very good summary of the position taken by an astounding number of Kirchnerites. It's also a core belief that is found in Argentine cultural DNA and it isn't going to be changed anytime soon. Of course, the reality also revolves around the expectations and demands of government officials that bribes be supplied.
People, people, people - you've got a society where you can't execute a valid search warrant against the office or domicile of a politico.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you rgs really stupid enough to think that this type of weighting of investigative equity won't have consequences?
Remember Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekie's words:
All argentines lie.
From my experience - given the opportunity - I suspect that most will steal.
So rather than trying to plow the sea and arrest all the thieves and grafters which are ubiquitous in rg - set a different coarse.
Reward honesty if any is detected.
This would be a much less taxing affair for the instruments of rg justice.
Wait - rg justice. Is that an oxymoron?
@6 “... you've got a society where you can't execute a valid search warrant against the office or domicile of a politico.”
Jun 18th, 2016 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you were referring to the offices and homes of senators and deputies. There was a federal police raid on the offices of the provincial government here in Río Gallegos just a few weeks ago.
The Kitchener gang moaned about hedge funds as vultures.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Try it on the pink outhouse.
Jun 18th, 2016 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Slowly, slowly, catchchee TMBOA!
Jun 20th, 2016 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if the little Bersa 0.22lr rf pistol will be seeing another outing? I do hope so.
As Father Ted said “it was only resting in my account”
Jun 20th, 2016 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Agreed...
Jun 20th, 2016 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But the proper description for the K-Gang may be better described as “parasites”, sucking out the life blood, but not killing the host.
Parasite (noun): ”an organism that lives in or on another organism (it's host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.“
Origin of the word: mid 16th century, via Latin from Greek ”parasitos” a person eating at another's table. from para- 'alongside' + sitos 'food'.
It's so sad.
Best wishes all!
lol
Jun 21st, 2016 - 01:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0ChaviDuro are definitely sheep skinners as opposed sheep shearers.
Speaking of parasites.....
Jun 23rd, 2016 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Reekie will be pleased to note that six more deputies in the national congress are abandoning the Kirchnerist bloc, the Frente para la Verguenza.
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