Las autoridades argentinas investigan a diplomaticos de unos 40 paises por la presunta comision del delito de contrabando de vehiculos. Entre los investigados se encuentran funcionarios de las embajadas de Estados Unidos, Venezuela, Canada , Guatemala, Bolivia, Per , Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Corea del Sur, Alemania, Albania, Angola, Suiza, Italia, Croacia, Rusia e Italia. La investigacion se realiza ademas a integrantes de organismos internacionales como el Fondo Monetario Internacional y del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo.
Las operaciones ilegales presuntamente se cometieron del 2004 al 2007, etapa en la cual fungía como canciller Rafael Bielsa secundado por el actual Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, and consisted of entering high-end cars such as sports or off road, diplomatic duty free and then sell on the local market.
The complaint, made two courts by Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana which ordered an internal summary, moving from his position as Minister Jorge Matas second leading to the Department of Franchising, and auditing to various branches of his ministry.
According to the source, which investigates the ordinary courts Argentina are the steps taken by officials for foreign diplomats (in Argentina) in alleged connivance with senior employees of the foreign minister to Argentina.
in the country, all legal proceedings involving ambassadors or diplomats in general should be handled before the Supreme Court.
Proceedings under way federal judges develops Ocean Romilda Servini of covered (criminal jurisdiction) and Marcelo Aguinsky (criminal courts and economic).
Pandora's Box
external audit ordered by Taiana in August 2007 revealed that 960 cars entered Argentina with diplomatic franchise in the last four years.
Of that total, the auditors took a sample of 98 units whose track procedures thoroughly checked it reveals that 93 percent was nationalized in a period of time than that set out the rules of the Vienna Convention.
The Vienna Convention on which the special import regime for diplomatic car provides privileges "are granted, not to benefit individuals but to ensure the effective discharge of its functions' .
He added that 18 percent of the cars tested were sold so quickly that they could not complete the process to hold diplomatic plates.
The provision requires that vehicles admitted to those profits, exemption from taxes and other fees importaciíon "I know it can be sold freely, and domestic cars, four years after admission in the country.
The provision states that if sold within two years, must pay 100 percent of taxes, in the third year, 60 percent and, in the fourth year, 40 percent. Argentina
Justice ordered the prohibition of leaving the country for all cars that are part of the research because their import formalities are under suspicion, unless they are driven by the holder.
According to the auditor ordered by the chancellor, the high-end sports cars such as jeeps and Hummers for General Motors Ferrari sports cars, Porsche, Lamborghini is preferred by the diplomats.
Nothing lost everything
becomes Foreign Ministry's complaint is similar to that of 'phony cars' that occurred during the Menem administration, a1993, 1991, diplomats from Bolivia, Paraguay, Venezuela, Spain and Panama, among others, were accused of importing cars franchises to be sold in the market for private use.
The paradigm of the time was the scandal of former ambassador of Bolivia in Argentina between 1989 and 1992, Agustin Saavedra Weisse, who was denounced by entering a whopping figure of 152 luxury cars for diplomatic and sell before the minimum time required.
His actions did not end there, faster for business man, ended up being charged with two further illegal actions. The first was the export of some of those cars overseas, which reported earnings by about eight million dollars, and the second charge was that the then ambassador had been appointed to forty Bolivians who resided in the country as members of the embassy in Argentina thus to keep hidden the fate of the car.
Another complaint was against the ambassador of Panama, Pedro Escalona Rios, who was engaged by the former judge in the economic Enrique Otero, and former attorney Ricardo Cavallero, in the import of cars for resale.
A great deal of thousands of dollars to the buyer, and a 'market' consisting of entrepreneurs and artists. It was also discovered a new case in which importers franchises used disabled. Bought more than one car per person, and always relished his exquisite palate automobile brands, Mercedes Benz and BMW.
The investigation led to the displacement of former Judge Enrique Otero for poor performance of their duties, and led to the discovery of a Mercedes Benz hidden under bales of alfalfa, thus imported into the room Roviralta Hubert, former partner of Susana Gimenez.
The bright star, accused of concealing contraband, had to pay $ 10,000 to Customs to close the court case. Also investigated another former partner Susan, actor Ricardo Darin, who had bought a Nissan pickup businessman Jose Cacho Steinberg. The list would be endless, but we will close with two journalistic entrepreneurs, one Constancio Vigil then president of the publishing house Atlantis, who had bought a Mercedes-Benz, using as a front man Juan Carlos Albarracin, a man who had lost his legs in an accident rail and worked as an elevator in an editorial. Vigil said he committed an imprudence before the cameras of which was his own television channel (Telefe) to be terminated in 1991. The other, now deceased, was the owner of Scope Julio Ramos Financial daily elaborated the doctrine of contraband patriotic, explaining that the poor rich imported luxury cars left because the authoritarianism of the state prevented it from the right, and equate Mariano Moreno and the Representation of farmers before the Revolution of May.
The continuity of change
Nothing has changed, only the circumstances and the actors, but it all takes place in the upper echelons of political power. Has shot a head, a minister Jorge Matas second, but the criminal actions can not make a single official. We are in the presence of a cystic conspiracy in the Chancery, which for years working under the noses of the same minister who now belatedly and that the complaint can not blame the previous administration. Must reveal the names of those involved regardless of their political position, economic status or figurative in society. Para llegar a la verdad es preciso querer descubrirla en toda su desnudez, en su totalidad. Por ello, es preciso que el canciller Taiana milite del lado donde no hay privilegios que disimular ni defender.
23 de enero 2008
La Columna de Elliot Ness
Investigan a 15 embajadores por la venta irregular de autos importados
La Justicia pidió a la Cancillería informes sobre la situación actual de los diplomáticos. Y de otros funcionarios de representaciones extranjeras. Seek links with auto operations for the exclusive use of the embassies.
In a decision that strongly shook the foreign diplomatic corps, Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide, yesterday asked the Foreign Ministry reports on an "urgent" on the identities, status and employment status of about 15 current and former ambassadors and dozens of current former ministers and consuls and accredited advisers in the country. This seeks to determine now if the foreign officials committed "crimes against public order" regarding the importation of cars with diplomatic franchise research.
The scandal erupted Monday when the Foreign Ministry presented a criminal complaint following an audit found irregularities in the "circuit of entry, movement and nationalization of vehicles entering the country with the benefit of tax exemption enjoyed by the missions and foreign missions, its officers and employees between 2004 and 2007.
Specifically, the irregularities relate to the time of the nationalizations carried out in such vehicles, which should have been done only under the "termination of service" the diplomat beneficiary under certain rules that seem to have been met in many cases. In fact, Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana also decided to remove from office of the official headed the Franchise Area, Jorge Matas.
The strength of the scandal is that the identities of the diplomats investigated jumped to the press. Clarín Oyarbide agreed to the request, which came to the Foreign Ministry last Friday at noon. Among the most resonant, the owner of the Federal Criminal Court 5, asked about the accreditation of ambassadors following: Aramis Fuente Hernández (Cuba), Luis Maira Aguirre (Chile), Larbi Reffouh (Morocco) Yuri Korchagin (Russia) , Francisco Bustillo Bonasso (Uruguay) Ishtiaq Andraht (Pakistan). In addition to numerous diplomats from countries such as Brazil, Congo, Spain, United States, Venezuela and European Commission.
Oyarbide, decided to interrupt his vacation and take the case, which initially fell on the deputy judge, Maria Servini de Cubria, yesterday handed the case. In turn, the investigation will now judge is similar to the investigating judge in the criminal and economic Marcelo Aguinsky, who at the request of the Customs, a case was aggravated by smuggling about alleged irregularities in the import and nationalization of diplomatic vehicles.
Oyarbide, which led to a federal prosecutor's request Luis Comparatore rejected but "for now" a prosecutor's request for ordering the kidnapping of 98 imported cars investigated.
Instead the judge asked the National Registry itself Automotive A report on the identities of the owners of those surveyed now 98 vehicles, most of the attorneys in Argentina that could have dealt with the nationalization of the cars between 2004 and 2007.
In fact, in its letter, the judge stated that the franchises granted to 24 and 17 Hummer SUV sports car would have violated the rules by being excluded from the cars that meet official or representative. Thus, lists a large number of brands and diplomats (Lamborghini, Porsche, BMW, Toyota and Mercedes Benz, etc.) those who want to investigate.
Oyarbide worth mentioning that for now are only charged by authorities of the National Ceremonial Foreign Ministry, who were in office at between those three years. Law enforcement sources also reported that the judge decided to take a witness statement Summaries director of the Foreign Ministry, Alexander Mischutin Nogués.
Foreign Ministry sources were limited to reporting that they were "working as quickly" to "complete the information required by law."
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Natasha Clarin Digital
01/25/1908 
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