According to international media “The former Argentine ambassador in Caracas, Eduardo Sadous, testified under oath that entrepreneurs interested in doing business with Venezuela must pay between 15 and 20% of bribes to officials of the Ministry of Planning in Argentina.”
Also said that “a group of Argentine businessmen told him that they requested committees to do business with Venezuela in the framework of agreements signed between President Hugo Chávez and former president Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007).”
According to a Buenos Aires newspaper, it was reported today that “Sadous spoke on Tuesday to the Federal Judge Julian Ercolini and federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita as a witness in a court case taking place in Argentina.”
“The Argentine executive officials might have been benefited from these businesses export, while the commercial relationship with Venezuela was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina as well as the former director of the Agency for Control of Road Concessions (Occovi) Claudio Uberti.
The former ambassador confirmed that “information about the payment of these bribes was supplied by the commercial attache, Alberto Alvarez Tufillo, entrepreneurs and people from the embassy of Argentina in Caracas. “
Sadu Eduardo resigned from the Embassy in Caracas, reporting the disappearance of $ 90 million dollars from a trust that was formed to do business with the Venezuelan government. The money appeared, but is the hypothesis that was used to buy foreign currency on the parallel market of Venezuela and make a profit of about $ 13 million dollars.
On the other hand, the Planning Minister Julio De Vido, strictly denied the accusation.
“It’s an outrage, a lie” said the official.
For his part, Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana also rejected on Friday the sayings of Sadous, ensuring that in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “there is no record or knowledge of the allegations made by Sadous.”
Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said that worked and will continue working with the judge that is investigating the cause Ercolini.
On this issue, the leader of the Civic Coalition, Elisa Carrio, yesterday directly accused the former president Néstor Kirchner as the direct recipient of the bribes that would have paid Argentine businessmen to do business with Venezuela.
Carrio explained that “The money from the bribes paid by the companies to sell to Venezuela went directly to Nestor Kirchner.”
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