The prosecutor Diego Luciani He asked for a four-year sentence for Guillermo Moreno for having misappropriated the data of the Indec in 2007. The lawyer classified the former Secretary of Internal Trade as criminally responsible for abusing his authority, and for ideological falsehood of a public instrument and destruction of official documents. In addition, it was requested that he be disqualified from holding public office for ten years.
“The intervention altered crucial indicators such as the CPI which affected poverty measurements and these manipulations have led to widespread distrust of official statistics,” he argued. Luciani regarding his request for conviction. He also believes that “(Guillermo) Moreno was in charge of the operation” and that “he exerted the necessary pressure to achieve the consummation of the crimes.”
The former director of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Beatriz Paglieri, is also in the crosshairs. Luciani He asked for four years in prison and ten without public charges. For Marcela Filia and María Celeste Cámpora Avellaneda, two years of suspended prison and five years of disqualification were requested.
“With hammer blows they lowered the indices. Inflation did not have to exceed 10 percent and they achieved it by lying,” he added. Luciani. “Moreno, through the introduction of Paglieri, had managed to reach all the confidential information that was forbidden to him,” he explained.
The prosecution also requested to open an investigation against Feliza Miceli, the former Minister of Economy of the Nation (2005-2007), under the argument that the Indec It depended on the portfolio and not on the Ministry of Internal Trade.
“It is very complex how prices are set. We use the price conversation. That is what we did and we dealt with all the prices, not just some. The price conversation was done in my office with the person appointed by the company,” he had defended himself. Guillermo Moreno in another instance.
The investigation – carried out by Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 4, headed by Carlos Stornelli – originally began in 20017 after the lawyer of the non-profit civil association “Assembly for Social Rights” filed a complaint, based on newspaper publications that revealed the ways in which the then director of the IPC, Graciela Bevacqua, had been displaced.
It’s that after that Dark Bevacqua had asked the official to provide him with information on the businesses involved in the field studies that determined the inflation rates, with the purpose of “visiting” those companies, but Bevacqua refused. That is why Dark He would have replaced her with Paglieri, someone he trusted. In addition, the lawyer warned of a possible adulteration and manipulation of the inflation figures for January 2007.
