Mariana Soledad Vega (33) is one of the alleged creators of Coxtex, one of the ghost companies that contributed invoices to the Polo Obrero’s accounting. On May 23, the Police raided her house, in Lascano at 2500, in La Paternal. He did not find valuable documentation, but he took the cell phone of the supposed “businesswoman.” The expertise of that phone, to which she had access Infobae, reveals how the framework worked to create companies that then issued trout invoices. The chats and audios prove that Vega charged to lend his name and even carried out banking procedures at the request of that organization.
On November 3, 2021, almost a year after the creation of Coxtex, Vega received an audio from a woman identified as Gabriela Anahí Rivero. She warned him that a company had to be closed urgently. “Do not tell me! The last thing I want is problems (…) I went twice in the same week to look for the checkbooks and they never gave them to me. So Marcelo told me that he was going to open one in Lomas de Zamora (…) I spoke with Geremías and told him that I was already opening two accounts, if there was a possibility that instead of continuing to pay me seven lucas, they would pay me ten (…) after two weeks Geremías made me open an account by phone (. ..) and there he told me that I had to go look for a checkbook.”
Vega and his “partner”, Luis Alexander Pichuaga, a Canadian who was also raided, created Coxtex and three other companies throughout 2020: Consulting SA, Recinsur SA and Ciriaco Shoes SRL.
In October 2022, Vega notified Rivero that the AFIP had visited her at her home in Recinsur. “They are looking for you from the AFIP. For a society that cannot be located. “They came home”, he warned him, implying that he was only lending his name. Three days later he insisted: “Anita just passed by the man from the AFIP (…) he disconnected me from everything. There are many companies in my name: Recinsur. VSP. Coxtex.”
Vega is a humble woman. When her house was raided, she was not at her home. After a while he showed up spontaneously with his partner, a 55-year-old bricklayer. The Police searched her and found the Samsung brand phone.
A few hours after the raid on her house, she appeared alone in the Comodoro Py courts to request the assistance of an official defender but until now she has not testified.
Vega’s financial situation does not match his expenses. Infobae revealed last week that between September and October 2023 spent $3,540,000 for alleged consumption in the Apple Store. That information still does not appear in the file.
Chats and audios sent by WhatsApp were also found on Vega’s cell phone. Geremías Sebastián Prum, a businessman dedicated to the construction industry. The conversations date back to June 2020, when the companies had not yet been created. Prum explained the pending procedures, including the withdrawal of a checkbook. “Hello Soledad, sorry for the inconvenience. Could you go to the bank? (…) let me see if I can send you an UBER (..) A Logan will pick you up there, Soledad, and he will take you to the Microcenter,” says an audio from July 14, 2020. And adds: “(…) when they give you the checkbook, sign it and let me know, then we will see where you leave it (…) not because we are going to use it, but because that way Until the end of the year, at least, we are not going to need any more checks, if all that is going to be kept in the office.”
When this dialogue ends, the businessman transfers $4000 to a Brubank account and sends you the receipt.
Conversations with a man identified as Marcelo Eduardo Caminada, who also gave him orders about banking procedures. “The truth is that these people from the bank are going overboard, wow (…) how can it be with the amount of checks that we carry payments (…) maybe tomorrow I’m going to pick up the checkbook from the Frenchman, because that’s where I got authorization , so you didn’t have to go (…) later I’ll let you know and give it to you, so you can sign it at home,” he complained in June 2020.
Caminada is a merchant. Before the AFIP he maintained that he is dedicated to the repair of vehicles and motorcycles. The Justice Department investigated it and ended up raiding it last week. There was also a procedure in Prum’s house, Infobae learned from judicial sources.
In the case of the Polo Obrero, trout invoices from two companies for a total of $25 million pesos. These invoices, for the sale of goods and even computers, would have been used to justify money expenditures.
One of the targeted firms is a printing company called “Ediciones e Impresiones Rumbos SRL”, with headquarters at 542 Palestine Street, in the Almagro neighborhood. The other company that provided invoices is Coxtex SA, supposedly dedicated to the sale of household appliances, cell phones and computer accessories. In fact, it is a trout invoice plant.
After three weeks of hearings, the round of inquiries ended yesterday. Now Judge Casanello has 10 days to decide whether he prosecutes, dismisses or rules that the accused lack merit.
In his investigation, the head of the PO, Eduardo Belliboni, assured yesterday that the companies they used to “justify” expenses were authorized by the AFIP and that if there was any problem it was the responsibility of that organization that allowed the companies to continue operating. He was referring to Coxtex and Rumbos, another of the firms that provided apocryphal invoices.
Belliboni denied the accusations, told how the Polo Obrero works and presented three bibliographies with documentation to counter the accusation. Furthermore, he insisted that it is a cause armed by the government of Javier Milei.
