The former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner He used his social networks to respond to the president Javier Mileiwho broke away from the senator Edgardo Kueiderdetained on the border with Paraguay with undeclared US$200,000.
“If it had been mine, I wouldn’t have voted for the Base Law, dear Javier. You like peaches but you don’t believe in lint. Besis.”he published on his X account.
Previously, Milei had published a message along with a photo of the 2019 Frente de Todos ballot, where Kueider appeared as a candidate for senator. “@CFKArgentina ALL YOURS… THE END.”wrote the president.
According to judicial sources, the Paraguayan Public Ministry, charges were filed against Edgardo Kueider and his secretary Iara Gunsel Costa “for the alleged commission of a punishable act of attempted smuggling” after having been found at a checkpoint in the Triple Border with more than US$200,000 and $600,000 undeclared.
Both are detained at the Alto Paraná Police Directorate until they are called to testify by the judge in the case.
Upon arriving at the prosecutor’s office, the senator had assured journalists that he is “totally innocent” and that the dollars are not his. It was his first public appearance after the arrest that occurred during the early hours of the morning on the border between Paraguay and Brazil.
“I have come to speak with the prosecutor on duty, to express my total innocence,” expressed before the cameras. When asked about the origin of the money with which they surprised him, he responded: “I don’t have to justify it, because it wasn’t mine. But I’m going to clarify it.”
Edgardo Kueider’s secretary appears in the highest category in the Senate and earns more than $2 million
The secretary of Senator Edgardo Kueider, Iara Magdalena Guinsel Costa, appears as a temporary contracted staff in the Upper House under the category A-1-T and charge a salary of more than $2 million. The documentation came to light in the context of the case that the legislator is being investigated for the US$200,000 that he tried to transfer from Argentina to Paraguay without declaring.
It should be noted that the young entered the Senate without no type of experience in the parliamentary field. In their first statements, legislator and secretary They presented different versions of what happened, so in the next few hours the The prosecution is going to prepare the accusation formal to investigate the origin of Kueider’s money.
Guinsel Costa, 34, was found in the 4×4 truck that Kueider was driving at the crossing from Brazil to Paraguay over the Friendship International Bridge. Both were detained after more than US$200,000 was found on them. and $600,000 undeclared.
The legislator’s secretary appears as contracted personnel of the temporary plant in the highest category of the Senate: A-1-T. Those people who are in this range receive a total gross salary of $2,156,269.91. Guinsel Costa was discharged from the AFIP in September of this year.
Source: Ambito
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