“The total number of vehicles was sold for $451,600,000”reported from the Government of Santa Fe behind the first auction of the Provincial Agency for Registration, Administration and Destination of assets and Patrimonial Rights (Aprad) of the management. In official exchange, they entered $505,711,086.
The auction was this Thursday at the Metropolitan Hall of rosary beads and they were finished 21 cars, 6 pick-ups, 12 motorcycles and a collector’s caras reported in a statement, with a total of 4,500 registered.
The lot that was paid the most for was number 5, a Mercedes Benz A45 AMG of 2017, whose final price amounted to $44,000,000. In second place, lot 10 was located, a Dodge RAM 1500 of 2019 ($44 million).
Then, third place was shared by lot 6 (a 2013 Mercedes Benz SLK 250 at $40 million), lot 40 (the classic Triumph TR3 from 1958 to $33 million) and lot 2 (a 2019 Toyota Hilux for $31 million).
The governor Maximiliano Pullaro participated in the event, along with the ministers of Justice and Security, Pablo Cococcioniand Government and Public Innovation, Fabian Bastia.
“This auction is a public policy that should never have stopped being carried out,” said the president of Santa Fe and recalled that “arose from a law that the province of Santa Fe has, the only one in Argentina, which aims to strike at the heart of criminal organizationsin what hurts them the most: in property and money, in order to break the possibilities they have of continuing to commit crimes.”
The auctioned goods, high, medium and low range, They had a base value between 40% and 60% of the market price. In this way, interested parties bid on a Dodge RAM with a floor of $20,000,000 and a Mercedes Benz SLK 250 Blue Efficiency Roadste of $17,000,000, for a Fiorino Qubo of $2,000,000. A 2005 Audi at $2,000,000, a Smart at $6,500,000 and a 1958 Triumph TR3 at $5,000,000 will also be available.
The spokespersons clarified that the domain will be changed to the vehicles so that they do not end up associated with the criminal organizations from which they were taken, a measure that aims to provide security to the people who acquired them.
The Santa Fe government had opened registration for those interested on April 11. It was online and a mandatory requirement for those who finally participated in the auction, since a Cross-referencing data on criminal records and to verify that the interested parties had no ties to the investigated gangs.
The auction was held after an agreement with the Auctioneers’ Associations of the first and second constituencies of the province of Santa Fe. Through the rubric, the professionals, who were chosen by lottery, collaborated with the development through APRAD, the provincial government entity that manages all the goods and effects that They are subject to kidnapping or other measures ordered in judicial cases as a consequence of crimes or contraventions.
These assets have primary objective its social utility. Thus, the funds raised in the auction have three purposes: first, to self-finance the Agency, which is an autonomous entity; second, apply money to security policies; and third, allocate funds to social policy.
“The money returns to society through donations to institutions, schools, neighborhood clubs, homes, among others,” indicated the Santa Fe Government.
“In addition to imprisoning those who do not let us live calmly and in peace, know that the State is going to seize and auction off the acquired assets, products of illicit businesses, and With that money we are going to compensate the victims and donate to public welfare institutions. to contain the most vulnerable sectors of society,” said Pullaro.
