Justice is discovering the vast business of illegal repression, ranging from the looting of homes for sale of property under torture and the creation of shell companies to launder money and recycling fields. According to the prosecutor handling the case, is the "commodification of death."
Silently, meticulously, the investigation of crimes committed within the jurisdiction the First Army Corps during the dictatorship is moving in a new line. The prosecutor Federico Delgado discusses use of a dozen security companies run by agents for the missing property theft, laundering the money they stole and kidnapping for ransom of businessmen. It also identified the possible appropriation of property belonging to a militant group kidnapped in central Uruguay clandestine Automotive Orletti and purchase, with money from the detainees, two other buildings: the three places were intended for use by the SIDE. These are just some examples of what Delgado called, in a preliminary opinion, "the commodification of terror" or "dimension economic "plan repressive.
So far, only megacauses on crimes committed in the ESMA had made progress in the investigation of several cases of theft and repossession of property missing. Seven sailors and even the dictator's son Emilio Massera were blamed over five years for the ownership, through a string of shell companies, with valuable Chacras land belonging to businessman Victor Cerutti, the accountant and lawyer Horacio Palma Conrado Gomez. Later, the judge Sergio Torres opened a new case directly on the theft of their belongings to the victims of the dictatorship. Some detainees were forced to transfer home or to sign powers to give departments.
The file on the First Army Corps, who is in charge of the judge and prosecutor Daniel Rafecas Delgado, covering the kidnappings and disappearances in various concentration camps as Orletti, Atletico, The Bank, Vesuvius and Olympians, including cases of La Pampa and the province of Buenos Aires. So far there are 63 defendants in all these cases, of which about 40 are in custody, and there are 14 convicts.
When asked, some months ago to extend this research to its economic aspect, Delgado posed as a theoretical starting point. He noted that while a "macro" was deployed criminal plan "in order to depoliticize" and set "a new pattern of accumulation" to "micro-level terror resulted in a license to commit crime for those who were part of the system concurrently with the repression."
Silver, jewelry, real estate
The prosecutor argues that by just looking at some causes that are handled as ordinary crimes come to notice-and-start a network of security agencies that operated during the dictatorship, involving many cases of intelligence agents, in different ways: intelligence made "parallel" financial investigations, implemented kidnappings, were responsible for the outburst of goods missing and served as cover for doing different businesses with money or things that subtracted.
One hypothesis for the prosecution is that the Security Master Integral SRL company was created to "bring the money proceeds from the assets of those who were dispossessed victims" Orletti, which is distributed under the supervision of former agent and Aníbal Gordon with the help of an accountant named Benítez. Gen. Otto Paladino, head of SIDE and that clandestine center of Flores, ran Magister. While in the central prevented spies appear officially in society, but included his wife, daughter and several members of Gordon's band, including Eduardo Ruffo, arrested last year by 65 Orletti abductions and disappearances, and Cesar Enciso (son of Paladino).
Magister, on paper, offering economic and market research, industrial consultancy, business management, security and industrial espionage. In practice, it would have received and channeled "the spoils of war"-jewelry, money, property-of Orletti, Condor headquarters in Buenos Aires. Much of the stolen property had belonged, according to research Delgado, a group of Uruguayans held there, which belonged to the Parti pour la Victoria del Pueblo (PVP).
This is where the prosecutor's investigation runs into the appropriation of property for use by the SIDE. And heard testimony indicating that a group of detainees Orletti was forced to make a sale, under false names, of properties that had bought the PVP in Buenos Aires. Already have verified that a building on Jane Street Azurduy that spies used the power of the militants was Uruguayan. In other cases, they would have used money from those people to buy a home for the SIDE on Avenida Coronel Diaz and the other in La Plata, whose previous owners died. In analyzing the buying and selling as the researchers found common pattern the three buildings that the seating order is 1976. In two cases the acquisition is done Osgra SRL a front company used by the SIDE, which then transfers the property to Timayu SA, while in 2003 he made a donation to the State.
A fourth building in sight, in Rawson Street: SIDE tells Justice that does not belong, but in the Land Registry is in the name of the national state. There is ample evidence that there, under the cover of a supposedly News Agency Argentina, worked the GTE (Exterior Task Force) Intelligence Battalion 601, which made foreign intelligence tasks. A Gordon, in fact, he found a card in this false news agency. Are indications that the intelligence activities of all kinds, including financial information, also would have been implemented by a state road. Delgado
suspected in kidnappings that were judged as isolated cases, could also be behind Master and other companies. The map, which is in full study includes about ten agencies. One of them, called Sidip, belonged to the former intelligence agent then Vice Commander of Air fueza Schillizzi Moreno and had among its members Jorge Rizzaro, Hannibal's nephew Gordon. Was installed in front of the ESMA. At the beginning of the case on the Triple A, was searched and found a weapons arsenal and some of the most sophisticated: for example, a belt shot. Another branch companies named suspect Scorpio SA and, in theory, was linked to the chief of the First Army Corps, the late Carlos Guillermo Suarez Mason. Paradoxically, Scorpio was raided during the dictatorship in the context of a habeas corpus. Were seized weapons and military uniforms, but that was all.
Arms sales
One of the first book that came out Delgado's research last year was the participation of the former head of the Menem administration PAMI, Victor Alderete, as liquidator of a company formalized twelve days after the start of the Falklands War, which had revealed Página/12 in 1997. The venture, called SMC, belonged to Suarez Mason and former Buenos Aires police chief Ramon Camps. He also appeared as the spokesman Alfredo partners Yabrán, Wenceslao Bunge, Bunge and his brother Hernan future partner and provider of senior social work, Roberto de Filippis. SMC had a comprehensive register diffuse activities. Among them appeared the purchase and sale of products and goods in the metallurgical industry. Everything would suggest, however, which would have been spent on arms sales.
The prosecutor suggested further research on trafficking in weapons during the dictatorship and raised as a hypothesis in this regard, the relationship between large kidnappings entrepreneurs either "for enrichment particular" as possible "attempts to solve military incursions abroad and / or the collection of arms" in Argentina. As examples, he cited the kidnapping in 1981 of Carlos Koldobsky banker, who owned the Banco de San Miguel and manager of change America SA, a millionaire ransom demand to deposit into an account in Switzerland. It also notes the kidnapping of Fernando Combal, who owned the Finsur financial. In both cases the former agent intervened Reisse Leandro Sanchez, GTE, who (to avoid extradition) revealed details before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States in 1987. Sanchez also said that next Reisse with his partner Raul Guglielminetti had in Miami two firms to provide money and weapons triangular: the Silver Dollar SA Argenshaw Second, we should also in Argentina.
looting Shortcuts
Delgado notes that, with this backdrop, Conarepa was created, a kind of de facto entity designed to make economic research of the second Peronist government officials. Worked outside the judiciary, but with similar powers (such as paving), and by basing its actions on the economic subversion law.
was made by representatives of the three Armed Forces. It was dissolved before handing over control to democratic government, in 1983, after confiscating goods of all kinds. This caused a flood of lawsuits would the State. A liquidation committee within the scope of the Ministry of Economy should handle the issue. Came to spend more than $ 200 million in compensation. Among the goods returned are the Gaspar House Private Fields and Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, which were of Juan Peron and then Elizabeth. The prosecution asked for months that the records Conarepa, but so far they say no one knows where they are.
reconstruction of the key pieces of the "commodification of terror" seems to be an arduous and complex. The prosecutor, in principle, believes that economic crimes of the dictatorial regime can not be equated with the crimes against humanity, but they can prosecute. Seeks to establish individual responsibility, but also institutional. Be seen whether the passage of time can apply penalties, and how many of those responsible are still alive then.
"The facts reveal that officials took the enforcement to seize assets of the victims for the most varied enterprises," said the prosecutor. There is no doubt that the illegal repression and robbery were of the hand and the terrorist state apparatus invented the tools "to ensure success their criminal actions. "
With the permission of Pajarito
" We had to wait for his order. "" No order for him nobody left to steal. "" He "was the repressor Guillermo Suarez Mason, head of First Army Corps in the story of the policeman during the trial Omar Torres Julián the Turk, in July last year. The theft of property of victims of dictatorship was oiled, planned and was done at night, at least in the center clandestine Olympians. There, said Torres, used to change the guard with a colleague "I wanted to be there for the spoils that came to steal, they wanted to be there to take something." Torres referred, in another case, on several occasions how the murderers were finished fighting for the "booty", where they killed and looted. She said it happened in the operation where they were killed Adela Révora Lucia De Pedro and Carlos Guillermo Fassano, who were brought dead and Olympus. In the house was $ 150,000, which the repressors were played in a match where a principal ended up dead and two wounded. In the following days, emptied the house in Bethlehem Street 335, in Floresta.
Irina Hauser
page 12. Buenos Aires
March 26, 2007.
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