Tag: Lazaro Baez

• Saturday, June 18th 2016 - 09:16 UTC

  “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.

• Thursday, June 9th 2016 - 09:16 UTC

  Argentina's energy minister, the official with largest amount of funds abroad

  

  Almost 100 million pesos (approx US$ 7.3 million) are held in offshore accounts by officials from the current Argentine administration economic Cabinet, a figure higher than the 18 million pesos President Mauricio Macri reported as having in a Bahamas account.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 08:20 UTC

  Argentine whistle blower reveals the Kirchner corruption system and admits he fears for his life

  

  Argentine whistle blower and former financial advisor to Kirchnerite businessman Lazaro Baez, who is imprisoned accused of money laundering and overbilling public works contracts, has told his former boss “not to be stupid and tell all the truth, what really happened”

• Saturday, April 30th 2016 - 10:57 UTC

  A natural size bronze statue of Kirchner found during Argentine prosecutors raids in Santa Cruz

  

  The mega judicial raids in Argentina into the properties of arrested Kirchnerite businessman Lazaro Baez and his family, in the southern province of Santa Cruz, so far have found less cash than rumored but far more assets that expected, including some surprises such as a full size bronze statue of former president Nestor Kirchner.

• Thursday, April 28th 2016 - 07:37 UTC

  Corruption network ever closer to Cristina Fernandez as associates are investigated

  

  Argentina's Lower House member and former Secretary of ex president Cristina Fernandez, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro is under prosecution investigation following claims he over billed travel expenses while overseas in 2015 as part of the presidential delegations.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 08:30 UTC

  Hero's welcome for Cristina Fernandez in Buenos Aires, where she faces first court investigation

  

  Supporters of former President Cristina Fernandez gave her a hero's welcome Monday night at a Buenos Aires metropolitan airport before she faces a court over her possible role in an alleged scheme to manipulate Argentina's currency.

• Monday, April 11th 2016 - 06:46 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez to be questioned in money laundering investigation; militants organizing support march

  

  A Prosecutor decided on Saturday that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner must be included in a money laundering investigation following the testimony given by whistleblower Leonardo Fariña before Judge Sebastian Casanello on Friday.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:03 UTC

  Kirchnerite businessman arrested; faces charges of money laundering and fiscal fraud

  

  An Argentine powerful public works contractor from the province of Santa Cruz and close associate of the Kirchner family, Lazaro Baez was arrested on Tuesday afternoon when he arrived in his private Lear Jet to a Buenos Aires airport. Considered one of the wealthiest men in the southern province, political turf of the Kirchner family, and with an 'unrivaled' talent for business, Baez is a main suspect of an investigation into alleged money laundering.

• Friday, July 17th 2015 - 05:28 UTC

  Argentine Judge who ordered a raid of Cristina Fernandez's businesses, was removed

  

  An Argentine judge who on Monday ordered a raid of real estate offices belonging to the son of President Cristina Fernandez, on an ongoing probe into money laundering and tax elusion, was removed from the case on Thursday. A Federal court ruled the nullity of the order issued by Judge Claudio Bonadio after a presentation by Romina Mercado, niece of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and who also happens to figure as the head of the Hotesur company under investigation.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 05:29 UTC

  Barrage of accusations following a Judge's order to raid Maximo Kirchner's real estate agency

  

  The raid ordered by an Argentine Federal Judge at a real estate agency which belongs to president Cristina Fernandez' son, Maximo Kirchner's in Rio Gallegos, triggered a barrage of accusations from government officials, just a few days ahead of decisive primaries in August, in anticipation of the October presidential elections.