According to reports, the reprehensible episode occurred in a house located on Lisandro de la Torre and Presidente Alvear streets, where the subject was captured in flagrante delicto. Outside the house, a white Chevrolet Spin truck, owned by the SENAF, was waiting to load the loot.
This is how they discovered the public employee
Always according to the sources, the investigation of the incident began after a police procedure in the El Manzanar neighborhoodwhere the suspect was detained inside the house.
Security camera recordings showed that a van with specific characteristics was waiting in the area, which led police to identify the vehicle. The Cipolletti Investigation Brigade managed to locate a similar van inside the SENAF headquarters, on 9 de Julio 55 Street, confirming that it was assigned to this person.
It was discovered that the employee, identified as Daniel Soto, had been using the official vehicle for personal purposes on several occasions. The car was seized as evidence, and the man was brought to justice.
A real piece of paper. Unpresentable no matter how you look at it.
The history of a corrupt employee
At the end of 2023, in another scandalous episode that affected the local government, María Laura Illesca, the former treasurer of the Municipality of Cipolletti, accepted her responsibility in “defrauding the public administration and embezzlement”, for which she was convicted by Justice. .
In this sense, it was learned that she was sentenced to two years in prison, which she could serve conditionally. Likewise, she was disqualified from holding public office for life, and that same resolution enables the municipality to claim the money in the contentious-administrative jurisdiction.
According to the complaint, the criminal maneuver was detected from a routine control carried out by the Ministry of Finance. Thus, strange movements of money were detected that ended up in a Credicoop bank account. The Municipality has accounts in that bank, but the deposits were made without documentation to justify them and an individual, so the accounting area suspected that it was due to a criminal maneuver and an investigation was initiated that quickly collected enough evidence to intervene. Justice.
The accused María Laura Illesca was appointed by the Deliberative Council in October 2022. The councilors accepted the Executive’s appointment, highlighting that she was a career employee, with two decades in the Municipality, and a deep knowledge of the work of the Treasury. .
She had started as a cashier and had become second in command of the treasury, until she was appointed.
