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Case for extortion: they reveal that the majority of the accused picketers received a social plan - Infobae
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Causa por extorsión: revelan que la mayoría de los piqueteros imputados cobraban un plan social
La ministra Sandra Pettovello le dijo a Infobae que los dará de baja “de manera inmediata”. Jeremías Cantero, dirigente del Polo Obrero, y uno de los principales involucrados en la investigación, era funcionario del Estado y cobraba más de 800 mil pesos mensuales
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May 16, 2024
Minister Sandra Pettovello told Infobae that she will dismiss them “immediately.” Jeremías Cantero, leader of the Polo Obrero, and one of the main people involved in the investigation, was a State official and earned more than 800 thousand pesos per month.
By Andres Klipphan
New revelations in the case outside the beneficiaries of social plans
The majority of the picketers charged in the case for the alleged extortion of social leaders against the poorest sectors of Argentina receive a social plan from the National State . There are nineteen of the twenty-eight defendants who belong to the Polo Obrero, Barrios de Pie and the Front of Organizations in Fight (FOL) . The data arises from the call for investigation, raids and arrest requests that federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita made to Judge Sebastián Casanello . In response to a query from this medium, the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello , anticipated that “ we are going to terminate them immediately.”
As this media already reported, one of the main people involved in the file, Jeremías Cantero , a member of the national leadership of the Polo Obrero, was an official of the former Ministry of Social Development. Infobae accessed accessory documentation that reveals that the leftist leader earned between half a million and more than eight hundred thousand pesos, as a member of the Social Portfolio, while Eduardo Belliboni, leader of the Workers' Party, demonstrated in front of the historic building on 9 de Julio and Moreno, to request food and more social plans.
Cantero, Belliboni's right-hand man, ranked seventh among the national deputies on list 502 of the Left Front and Unity Workers on October 23.
Jeremías Cantero is a leader of the Polo Obrero, a former national official and one of the main defendants in the case according to prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita
According to ANSES records, Cantero joined the National Secretariat for Children in January 2020 and continued to collect from the State until April 2024, that is, up to eight months before the Government of Alberto Fernández left power in the hands of Freedom Advances.
In the last six months, his fees ranged from $535,122 to $852,946. According to the same documentation, the fluctuation in the amounts was due to the “overtime” worked by the picketer accused by the prosecutor Pollicita of being “ one step higher than the leaders of each dining room . ” The file states that the former official “ coordinated the operation of several soup kitchens in the City of Buenos Aires and intervened from that position in decision-making regarding coercive and extortionate demands on the victims.”
In court case 4489/2023, it is reported that Cantero has a telephone conversation with Gianna Puppo , another representative of the Polo Obrero, to whom he says: “You have to make an effort to try to raise a little more, if they already make a small effort.” , that each one contributes more than 2% , I don't remember exactly how much it is, but each one makes a larger contribution for the rent. Well, we continue to maintain that. Now, the biggest effort would be to increase that?”
On June 15, 2022, Belliboni acknowledged to Infobae that the organization retains 2% of each of the 60,000 beneficiaries of Empower Work who are active in the ranks of that left-wing organization.
The last six months of collection of Jerónimo Cantero, national leader of the Polo Obrero and public official until April 2023
In the words of the PO leader, this collection “is not compulsive” but is “ a voluntary contribution of the income voted on in the assemblies . ” The prosecutor thinks differently.
Defendants who received a social plan
The names and information of each of the 19 investigated who receive a social plan are described on page 38, out of a total of 89.
They, according to the lengthy description of the prosecutor Pollicita, acted “as representatives of social organizations, they would have demanded that the beneficiaries of social plans participate in marches and public demonstrations or the delivery of a portion of the money received by said plans, under the express warning of ' cancel the plan' if they do not attend or do not deliver the money.”
The Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, anticipated that she will discharge the picketers accused in the extortion case who are beneficiaries of a plan
“ Imputed beneficiaries of social plans” is the title of the tables prepared by the prosecutor. In each of the boxes, Pollicita describes which program was charging - they were all beneficiaries of Empower Work -, when the last “payment” was, the majority between last January and February - the case began in the second month of the year - and the amount they received. All $78,000, which was the asset at that time, and which corresponded to 50% of the Minimum Living and Mobile Wage.
In addition, some of them received “additional benefits” such as Plan Nexo that the beneficiaries received for providing services for more than 4 hours a day or through the “social monotribute.” In February, some of them earned almost $200,000, a figure slightly higher than the Minimum Living and Mobile Wage, which in February was $156,000.
The accused who received benefits from the state, for living in an alleged state of vulnerability, just like their victims were: Gustavo William Vasquez , Gianna Puppo, Maria Cecilia Cowper, Dina Patricia Iramain, Cynthia Delgado Vilches, Leslie Salirrosas Castillo, Damaris Erika Villafuerte, Gloria Paraguay Estrada, Rosmery Grande Arancibia, Elizabeth Mamani, Ada Mabel Vera Pearlta, Nery Acha Daza, Leticia Maribel Duarte Romero, Gloria Santa Jaramillo Morales, Blanca Beatriz Chuquimia Traquino, Lucca Philippe Quispe Rashuaman, Brisa Noelia Paucara Choque and Ronald Vargas Rocabado . . . .
Part of the list of accused picketers who receive a social plan
That the accused belonged only to the Polo Obrero, FOL and Barrios de Pie organizations is not surprising. The Ministry of Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich, had enabled Line 134 days before December 20, 2023 for those who feel pressured by social leaders to attend the march against the Government of Javier Milei, which had taken office for ten days. before. The protest, in front of the Casa Rosada, had been called by the Piquetera Unit, but some columns from Barrios de Pie also participated, the organization coordinated at the national level by Daniel Menéndez , former official of the nation's social portfolio and current undersecretary of Popular Economy in the Ministry of Community Development, of the province of Buenos Aires, by Andrés “Cuervo” Larroque .
Until the day of the march, 13,310 calls were received, of which a total of 2,720 could be answered and, among them, a total of 924 were reported to the Pollicita prosecutor's office "for meeting the parameters of verisimilitude of typicality." Of these complaints, 45 cases of events had occurred in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. that is, they corresponded to the jurisdiction of Pollicita. That thread began to be pulled and based on the accounts of the witnesses who testified before the federal prosecutor's office and the wiretaps authorized by Judge Ercolini, the judicial case arose that produced a true political commotion. In the words of Minister Pettovello, “ this is the tip of the iceberg , people are encouraged to speak out and report because we are giving clear signals of wanting to change things and fight corruption.”
