2024-06-28 02:29:37
Former Secretary of Domestic Trade, Guillermo Moreno, is being tried for the alleged manipulation of Indec data with the aim of hiding inflation. This Thursday, the federal prosecutor Diego Luciani He requested four years in prison and 10 years of disqualification from holding public office.
The former official is accused of the crimes of abuse of authority, violation of secrets, destruction of records and documents and ideological falsification of public documents. The Federal Criminal Court No. 2 of the Federal Capital is involved, made up of judges Nestor Costabel, Rodrigo Gimenez Uriburu y Jorge Gorini.
The same Court that judges the Peronist leader requested the same sentence for the former director of the IPC of Indec, Beatriz Paglieriand two years of suspended prison and five years of disqualification for the employees of the organization Marcela Filia y Maria Celeste Campora Avellaneda.
Paglieri is accused of being a co-author of the same crimes as Moreno, while the employees are in the case for being primary participants in the events, reported Noticias Argentinas.
The investigation against the former Secretary of Commerce began in 2007 through a complaint made by the lawyer of the civil association “Assembly for Social Rights” and is based on journalistic publications where irregularities in the displacement of the former director are reported. of the CPI, Graciela Bevacqua.
According to the complaint, Moreno replaced Bevacqua with Paglieri due to the refusal of the then director of the IPC to provide him with information about the businesses in which field studies were being conducted to measure inflation.
Furthermore, the civil association that made the presentation warned about manipulation of the inflation index published by Indec in January 2007.