The person in charge of the building where Cristina Kirchner lives declared: she said that Daniel Muñoz visited her and that letters were received for Cristóbal López

In the trial for the alleged corruption in public works - whose main defendant is Cristina Kirchner -, this Monday the person in charge of the building on Uruguay and Juncal streets where the vice president lives, testified as a witness. Julio César Silva counted who entered the building to go to Cristina's apartment, who are or were the neighbors of the property, in whose name the correspondence arrived. The doorman reminded Daniel Muñoz, the former secretary of Néstor Kirchner, who in the case of Los Cuadernos de las Coimas was identified as the person who transported bags with money from bribes and received them in that department.

Accurate in his words, and taking a few minutes to remember some full names, Silva returned to Comodoro Py after three years. The first time he had to testify as a witness was when Judge Claudio Bonadio raided the Uruguay and Juncal building in the framework of the Cuadernos case. "I have been in charge of the building for 32 years and I have a good relationship with everyone," he said at the beginning of his testimony.

The witness was required by the prosecution in charge of Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola. As Clarín was able to learn from judicial sources, the objective of the accusers was to ratify "the contextual situation" of the relations between the different defendants in the file for the alleged direction of the public road works in Santa Cruz, understanding that that building is mentioned in different legal cases, and that it has an exclusive role in the Cuadernos case: several witnesses -starting with the driver Oscar Centeno- pointed to it as the epicenter of the alleged movement of funds of illegal origin paid by state contractors.

Cristina's apartment in the Recoleta building, which is more than 80 years old, was worth, according to the justice, about 800 thousand dollars in 2016. After leaving the Casa Rosada, that 280-square-meter apartment was one of the addresses in which settled down to live. It was also a known address for Lázaro Báez, at least on paper.

In 2009, according to a note issued by Austral Construcciones - the flagship firm of businessman K arrested for money laundering - the payment for the lease contracts of three properties is recorded. With checks made out to the real estate agency of Máximo Kirchner and Osvaldo “Bochi” Sanfelice, the detail of the payment for the fifth floor of Uruguay and Juncal appears. Six months of rent is recorded on the form.

For that semester alone, the Kirchner family received 152,130 pesos from the Báez construction company. There is no record that the company has used the facilities.

Austral is at the center of the accusation of the trial, since it was awarded the 51 tenders for 46,000 million pesos, which, in the opinion of the prosecutor's office that made the accusations for the trial, were directed contracts and loaded with irregularities. Among others, there were surcharges of an average 65%, and half of these works remained unfinished even though they were fully charged.

“Dr. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner lives on the fifth floor,” said the person in charge of the building. The same apartment that Lázaro Báez knew how to rent when he was simultaneously a State contractor. Another witness in previous hearings, in charge of the Carabelas street building -where Austral Construcciones has its fiscal domicile- pointed out that taxes such as the ABL from Cristina's department arrived there, so that Báez would pay them.

"Do you know Osvaldo Sanfelice?" the prosecution asked. The person in charge of the Uruguay and Juncal building responded immediately that he did, that he had seen him on a few occasions. "They treated him in the building, he went to the fifth floor," he reviewed. He also admitted seeing Oscar Leiva, who "lived on the fourth floor for a while." He is the brother-in-law of "Bochi" Sanfelice.

The bond is not just family. Sanfelice was on the list of employees of Alcalis de la Patagonia, of the Indalo Group. The justice later investigated cross-payments: the company paid for machinery rental to Agosto SA (from Sanfelice) and whose only client was the Indalo Group.

When the prosecutor Diego Luciani asked him if he remembered who lived in the building, he did not hesitate to refer to the fifth floor where the vice president is located, and when reviewing the correspondence he delivered, he referred to "the owners of Channel 5" in reference to Fabián De Sousa and Cristobal Lopez.

Indeed, according to other legal cases, the owner of the Indalo Group rented the vice president's apartment with two companies: Alcalis de la Patagonia (also a tenant of one of Cristina Kirchner's apartments in Puerto Madero) and Inversora M&S, controller of Oil Fuels (tried for an alleged millionaire fraud to the State by not paying the Fuel Transfer Tax). The contracts were signed between mid-2014 and the end of 2015. At that time, all income from rent for that apartment in Recoleta was billed through the “Kirchner, Néstor Carlos estate.”

But López did not live there. He had rented it for a close collaborator, the lawyer Mauro Ismael Sánchez. Before the Federal Oral Court 2 (TOF 2), the doorman stated this Monday that "Mr. Sánchez, a lawyer by profession, lived in the building for a while."

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For the investigators, the department of Uruguay and Juncal is a central piece in the scandal of the bags with bribes. On the 5th floor of that building, as Roberto Baratta's former driver, Oscar Centeno, wrote in the notebooks, bags arrived with dollars from bribes paid by businessmen who received public works contracts. The person in charge of receiving these funds was the former secretary of Néstor Kirchner, Daniel Muñoz.

The person in charge Julio Silva referred to the "secretary of Néstor Kirchner who has already passed away." He did not remember his name at the time, and decided to continue with his story. "The name will come to me," he told prosecutor Luciani. He said that he fixed it up with "giving him 500 to 600 letters every time he saw him where people asked for a job." Then, after a brief pause, he said to him: "Daniel Muñoz, that was the secretary's name" to whom he also delivered the services that came on behalf of the fifth floor.

He asked the prosecutor for permission and wanted to make an exception "no one could deny the difficult times that the country was going through at that time, and I am a witness to the infinity of people for whom (Néstor Kirchner) got jobs."

The reference to Daniel Munoz

He mentioned Daniel Muñoz as a regular person at the Uruguay and Juncal building. When he prosecuted former president Cristina Kirchner as head of an illicit association, Bonadio determined that only in the department of Uruguay 1306, "87 deliveries were made for 69,722,600 dollars," according to the resolution. Although it is impressive, that amount registers only the sum of the deliveries scored by Centeno. In his notebooks, in addition, there are several references to other illegal collection circuits of other ministries of the Kirchner government, which had their terminal on the same Buenos Aires corner of Uruguay and Juncal. According to the driver's notes, in a "modus operandi" that was repeated, those bags were transferred to that address between 8 and 9 p.m.

Cristina and Austral Constructions

The circuit investigated in the Cuadernos de las Coimas is not analyzed in the trial, but this "emblematic building is one more example of the commercial links between Báez and Kirchner," judicial sources explained.

The firm used to rent that apartment had already entered into other commercial agreements with the vice president: buying and selling real estate, renting rooms in the hotels of the former presidential family that he managed through Valle Miter SRL. This firm, which did not have its own capital, was financed with loans from Austral Construcciones for more than $70 million between 2009 and 2015, and thus could guarantee the payment of rent to the Kirchner family.

Austral Construcciones owned the land where Cristina Kirchner expanded her boutique hotel in El Calafate. In exchange for this exchange, they have a condominium of land officially valued at $14,700,000. But also the firm -which had the national state as its only client- built two complexes of buildings owned by Los Sauces SA (a real estate company belonging to the Kirchner family investigated for money laundering), which it later ended up renting with its construction companies.

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