Federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita asked on Monday to send the oral trial of the leader of the Workers Party, Eduardo Belliboni, for alleged “fraudulent administration to the detriment of public administration, threats and extortion” In the case that investigates crimes with the program to promote work, by signing the requirement for the pass of the case to a court.
He did it at the request of the federal judge Sebastián Casanellowho concluded a part of the investigation in which Belliboni and other defendants are prosecuted and gave sight to the parties to formulate their position regarding the sending of the case to oral trial, judicial sources reported.
The prosecutor formulated his request for elevation to trial and accused Belliboni of setting up an extortion system to “control and manage -in what was publicly called “Management”- Thousands of people throughout the country, ”according to the opinion.
The goal of “This criminal organization”, He defined, it was “to obtain undue profit and consolidate a power scheme.”
For this, they would have abused the “vulnerability” of those who needed the plans “to twist their will under threats and intimidation” such as depriving them of a “dish of food or their only means of subsistence.”
The investigation was initiated by denunciation of the government of Javier Milei, following calls anonymous where pressures were denounced to attend marches or pickets. In addition, when appropriating funds for beneficiaries of social plans, expenses with apocryphal billing were simulated.
The Prosecutor’s Office alluded to an “extortive-coercive scheme” through which the beneficiaries of the program had to “deliver” a part of state aid and were also obliged to participate and contribute to the “political activities” of the Po, details the most opinion of of 279 veneers.
In addition to Belliboni, Casanello prosecuted another 16 charged in decisions already confirmed by the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires and remains under investigation in its court the role they had in what happened national officials.
“In the case there was a criminal matrix that used the needs of a large vulnerable social sector of our country, which allowed them to illegitimately exercise power over those with a view to handling them according to their designs and obtaining money, used for own benefit and from third parties, depriving the victims of a better future, ”warned the Prosecutor’s Office from at least June 2020 to March 2024.
“The defendants defrauded the State through the illegitimate appropriation of millionaire public funds that were delivered as subsidies to the Polo Workers’ group,” the Prosecutor’s Office proven in the requirement that will be read when the future oral trial begins.
Source: Ambito
