For “personal reasons”, Roberto García Moritán resigned from the Ministry of Economy of the city of Buenos Aires

For “personal reasons”, Roberto García Moritán resigned from the Ministry of Economy of the city of Buenos Aires

Regarding the complaint, the report from the Buenos Aires Government alludes that “they adjusted to current regulations and were carried out in accordance with the law and that in addition will make available to Justice the information that is required in order to collaborate with the clarification. of the reported fact”.

“The City appreciates the commitment and dedication of Garcia Moritan at the head of the administration as minister promoting public policies that promote the development of the economy in the Buenos Aires territory,” the statement concludes.

In addition to his career as a businessman and his two years as a Buenos Aires legislator, Roberto García Moritan made room for consideration by the Buenos Aires Cabinet as a result of his support in the 2023 primaries for Jorge Macri’s candidacy for head of government. At first, and after moving Ricardo Lopez Murphyof the party he had founded (United Republicans), he himself began his campaign for head of Government of the city of Buenos Aires but resigned his candidacy to accompany the current president of the Federal Capital, who later chose him as Minister of Economic Development.

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own Jorge Macri echoed the resignation of his official through social networks: “Thank you, Roberto García Moritan for your management at the head of the Ministry of Economic Development. I’m sorry to see you step aside, but I understand that your priority is to protect your family. Rest assured that, in the City, we will continue working firmly to promote the development of the private sector.”

Complaint against Roberto García Moritán

Last Thursday, Justice received a criminal complaint against the Minister of Economic Development of CABA, Roberto García Moritan for the alleged “irregular hiring of 384 ministry employees and other service contracts with suppliers of different events for million-dollar sums or at base prices.”

He was also denounced for possible irregularities with different foundations and donations, according to the court presentation. According to the complaint García Moritán “would have appointed 384 people in six (6) months with salaries of more than 1,000,000 without these being essential and with the proper correspondence of tasks in said ministry.”

The complaint was filed in the Comodoro Py courts by Fernando Miguezpresident of the Foundation for Peace and Climate Change for the crime of “embezzlement of public funds, embezzlement” and was drawn in federal court No. 1.

The complainant recalled that last February a group of legislators opposed to Jorge Macri publicly denounced hiring of personnel or appointments of people “that they would not go to work at the Ministry of Economic Development for which García Moritán would charge a percentage as a party contribution,” highlights the complaint.

Only in the month of June did they present a request for reports in the Legislature for journalistic publications. “Today, September 26, neither the reports were given by García in the Legislature nor have any of the ‘complainant’ Legislators presented any other formal administrative or criminal complaint,” Miguez warned.

Source: Ambito

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