“Is it credible that Governor Weretilneck acts oblivious, when he is the political boss of former Governor Carreras?” asked former legislator and union leader Pablo Barreno, author of the criminal complaint with which a criminal investigation was opened into the purchase of the plane from the Río Negro Governorate.
The general secretary of the CTA Atlantic Zone criticized the position of the current government, which decided to sell the Cessna Citation V Ultra, purchased in 2022 in an operation that exceeded 4.2 million dollars.
Barreno expressed his view based on the report published yesterday by RÍO NEGRO Diarywith the details of the document prepared by the National University of La Plata, which reveal how much the provincial State overpaid for that aircraft, compared to market values.
“It was learned that a report (that the Government itself hid) determined, in April of last year, that between 500 thousand and 1,200,000 dollars more was paid for the aircraft. The work makes our suspicion explicit: there was no coherence between what was paid for the plane and the market price,” said the head of the union of judicial workers in the First District.
Given these data, he maintained that “at that time and now the concern is the same: Together We Are Río Negro expresses an opaque, inefficient and directionless management model that ends up causing suffering in the neighbors.”
“One button is worth a sample: now they want to sell a useless scrap which they themselves bought two years ago at a price that was at least dubious,” questioned the former legislator.
Consequently, he raised a series of questions: “Why was more than a million dollars overpaid? Where did that little money go? “Is it credible that Governor Weretilneck acts oblivious, when he is the political boss of former Governor Carreras?”
Finally, the leader stressed that “it only remains to know if Justice is going to rise to the occasion, finding those responsible for squandering the money of the people of Rio Negro.” or will it continue in airplane modein their connivance with the provincial Executive.”
