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The scandal over the “Chocolate case” was intensifying and Justice had just confirmed his preventive detention. The powerful deputy director of Personnel of the Buenos Aires Legislature, Claudio Albinithen tried to become insolvent. And for that, she advanced with the simulated sale of a mansion of 481 covered square meters that he owns in a country on Route 2. But generated the opposite effect: All the alarms went off and complicated the procedural situation.as reconstructed THE NATION based on public and private documents and judicial sources.
The mansion is forceful. It stands on lot 13 “d” of the country club Miralagos I, at kilometer 64 of the highway that connects the cities of Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata. Albini bought the land of 1282 square meters in May 2011 and for years enjoyed its benefits – from the golf and tennis courts, to the gym, spa and Club House – away from the public spotlight.
But the arrest of Julio “Chocolate” Rigau While he extracted money from 48 debit cards of alleged employees of the Buenos Aires Legislature suspected of acting as “gnocchi”, he disrupted everything. It was a matter of weeks for the prosecutor Betina Lacki asked for his arrest and that of his son, Facundo Albinirepresentative of the Renovador Front.
There began another story, close friends of the Albinis indicated to THE NATION: “They had been told from ‘above’ that they were going to ‘accommodate’ things, but it didn’t happen. On the contrary: they ended up in ‘cana’ and the rest continues in theirs, as if nothing had happened.”. But far from breaking down and telling what he knows, from his cell in the “Roberto Pettinato” Mayor’s Office on the outskirts of La Plata, Claudio Albini sought to get rid of assets that Justice could seize him and that, if convicted, would order confiscation. . Among them, the mansion.
On February 23, he informed Sintec SAthe Miralagos development firm, which He intended to give his lot to a third party for just US$30,000 when properties with similar surfaces and characteristics are quoted from US$250,000 in that country, according to the information available on different real estate portals.
Albini did not inform Sintec SA about the operation of his own free will, but because he was forced to do so. Because? Because when acquiring the lot in 2011, The bill of sale that he signed included a clause that imposed the need to obtain the developer’s consent as a prior condition to transferring the property to a third party..
Who appeared as the potential buyer? Alejandro Rolandia 37-year-old professional, with no apparent connection to the Albinis and whom THE NATION tried to contact by phone and email during the last few days. At the time of going to press, however, he had not responded to those messages, nor had the legal representatives of Sintec SA.
Since the scandal broke out after the arrest of Chocolate Rigau last September, the mansion in the Miralagos country had gone under the public radar, which was concentrated on another Albini property, located in Gonnet, on the outskirts of La Silver. Which? The house in which the deputy director of Personnel of the Legislature lived with his daughter Celeste – also an employee of the Buenos Aires Legislature –, her son-in-law and her grandson, and which had previously belonged to the head of the Estudiantes brave group, Rubén Orlando “el Tucumano” Herrera, convicted as a mainstay of the mega-gang of former judge César Melazo.
But Albini’s attempt while his name dominated the media agenda, added to the vile price that he declared to transfer the mansion, were too much. The legal representatives of Sintec SA reported the situation, and prosecutor Lacki reacted immediately.
“Depending on the attitude assumed by Claudio Gustavo Albini, clearly tending to evade the actions of Justice In direct relation to the activity planned for the State Prosecutor’s Office and other organizations responsible for defending the assets and representing the interests of the Province of Buenos Aires, I find it prudent require general inhibition of assets“said the prosecutor, who extended the request to Facundo Albini“due to his close relationship with his father in the accredited illicit maneuvers” and “the nature of their contribution to the criminal organization”.
After changing defense attorneys and appointing Maximiliano Rusconi, the Albinis tried to challenge the prosecutor, but the move was not successful either. The Guarantee Judge, Guillermo Atencio, refused to separate Lacki and then admit a proposal from the prosecutor. “I resolve to grant the requested precautionary measure“, he signed, “ordering the general inhibition of assets of Claudio Gustavo Albini and Facundo Mario Albini.”
With that order, Atencio sought to block the sale of the mansion in Miralagos and the rest of the Albini assets, accused of integrating an illicit association that defrauded the Buenos Aires State of at least $800 million in recent years, through the intensive use of “gnocchi” and names.
Atencio ordered to issue letters to block any movement of assets, whether with the sale, transfer or donation of real estate, cars, boats or aircraftwhile he had already ordered to block the bank accounts, bonds and treasury bills that the Albinis could have. Those assets, as he reconstructed THE NATIONthey could also cover several Racehorses.
