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With two payments, the company General Distributor Belgrano SRLknown as DBN in the art world, rented the stadium Luna Park in exchange for $10,000,000 so that the president Javier Milei present your book today Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap. This was reported to THE NATION reliable sources aware of the negotiation between DBN, the administrators of Luna Park and representatives of the Government sent by Karina Milei, the general secretary of the Presidency. The rent does not include security, the costs of which would be borne by the State.
Milei said yesterday that the rental price of Luna Park will be paid for by a company to which from now on until the total amount is covered, the Planeta publishing house will transfer the book royalties, which imply 10% of the cover price. which is about $23,000. However, from Planeta they informed THE NATION that the publisher only sealed a contract with the author. That is, there would be no transfer of money from the publisher to DBN, as the President pointed out.
“How do we pay for Luna Park? The Planeta publishing house transfers the royalties to a company. It doesn’t cost the State a cent, like none of my other activities,” Milei said yesterday in LN+. He did not specify the name or company name of the company and was not questioned either. The rental of Luna Park cost $10,000,000, without security and cleaning, according to reliable sources. THE NATION. During the current month, Planeta published two editions of 5,000 and 2,000 copies, respectively. A third edition, of 3,000, was approved to go to press and will be distributed after this afternoon’s show. It would be enough to completely sell the first edition to cover the rental payment. The question that arises is what the money circuit will be like between Milei and DBN, since the royalties from Planeta sales will be transferred to the President. Royalty payments are generally settled semi-annually.
The declared main activity of the DBN company is the wholesale sale of CDs and DVDs of recorded audio and videos. Although he also declares that he is dedicated to the field of motor vehicle and bicycle mechanics. THE NATION He contacted the company several times between yesterday and today, consulted it about this matter and received no response. One of the partners was also consulted, who neither confirmed nor rejected the company’s intervention in the rental of the stadium for the President’s show.
Distribuidora Belgrano Norte (DBN) is a company founded by the Amorena family that was born in 1952 and gained strength ten years later, when it gained “the trust of the recording companies,” as indicated on its official site. Historically, its main activity was to distribute records from multinational record labels such as Sony, Universal, Warner and national labels such as PopArt, Leader or the wide spectrum of independent albums to record stores throughout the country. Long play, cassettes, CDs, depending on the time, reached the shelves – and continue to arrive – thanks to its distribution network that began in the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs and expanded to the interior.
In the 1980s, DBN opened its own recording division and began importing material from foreign labels such as Real World, Hannibal Record, Fat Possum and others dedicated to jazz, blues and world music.
As they point out on their website, they currently have a catalog of 250 of their own national artists and an active portfolio of 650 clients. They have transferred their experience in music distribution to the universe of platforms and, in addition, they incorporated a new area that is probably one of the most profitable today: audiovisual production.
The President’s expenses for international tours and his personal activities entered a gray area that provoked a reaction from the opposition. There were complaints and requests for opposition explanations for the alleged particular interest in the recent trip to Spain, where Milei participated in an event supporting the extreme right and in an urgently organized meeting with businessmen.
The deputy Karina Banfi, vice president of the UCR block in Deputies, sent a note to the Anti-Corruption Office to find out if the trip violated the public ethics law, which states that officials must ““Refrain from using State facilities and services for your own personal benefit.”. The deputies of We Make the Federal Coalition, Oscar Agost Carreño and Margarita Stolbizer, They presented a project to request from the Executive Branch detailed information on presidential trips and the use of public resources. And the legislator of the left Gabriel Solano (FIT) A criminal complaint was filed for the use of the ARG 01 plane. This was joined today by a presentation in Congress by the block of Deputies of the Civic Coalition, which is promoting a project to make the use of official planes transparent and prohibit their personal, political and /or electoral.
