They confirm the prosecution of a former controller of the General Administration of Ports of the macrismo

The Buenos Aires Federal Chamber granted the prosecution to a former inspector of the General Administration of Ports during the macrismo, gonzalo mortolafor alleged violation of the duties of a public official, as a result of the direct contracting of a consultant for almost a million dollars.

Chamber I of the Court of Appeals thus endorsed a decision of the judge handling the case, Marcelo Martinez De Giorgiwho prosecuted Mórtola in September of last year without preventive detention and with a embargo of 400 thousand pesosaccording to the resolution.

the chambermaids leopold bruglia and mariano llorens confirmed the prosecution due to the “irregularities evidenced in the administrative actions” that led to the hiring the company INDRA SA and “the context in which these resolutions were adopted” by the former controller.

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“To enable direct contracting, the applicable regulations require the duty of justification, both with respect to the need for specialization and the capacity (scientific, technical or artistic, as the case may be) of the contractor.“, analyzed the chambermaids Bruglia and Llorens when confirming the processing.

“The technical report invoked only contains generic statements, without enunciating precise and objective data, while lacks supporting documentation“, concluded the Chamber.

In dissent, the third member of the room Pablo Bertuzzi, voted to revoke the prosecution, dictate lack of merit and deepen the investigation.

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The then comptroller of the AGP “departed from what is prescribed in the regulatory provisions, since the specialty was not effectively examined, nor substantiated, prior to resolving the direct contracting” that was made by $940,508.

The object of the contract consisted of obtaining background information and technical data for the elaboration of the bidding bases for forward the bidding for the new Port of Buenos Aires Terminals in 2016 and 2017.

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