Argentine judge okays inspection of three years of President Macri's financial disclosure statements
Argentine Federal Judge Sebastián Casanello has ordered that President Mauricio Macri’s sworn financial disclosure statements from 2013 to 2015 be analyzed in order to determine whether Macri “maliciously omitted information” or if there is missing data in his patrimony records.
Knowingly filing false financial disclosures by a public official, or a candidates to said office, is a felony in Argentina.
Judge Casanello approved a request by prosecutor Federico Delgado, who on June 8 recommended a more comprehensive examination into Macri’s sworn statements from his last three years as mayor of Buenos Aires (as Macri was gearing up for his presidential run in 2015).
The analysis will be conducted by experts at the University of Buenos Aires School of Social Sciences
The request was filed following revelations made public by the Panama Papers and Open Corporates scandals in April that Macri was a director of at least two offshore shell companies, held a separate Merrill Lynch investment account in the Bahamas, and was linked through immediate family members (particularly his father, contractor Francisco Macri) to up to a dozen offshore firms.
Macri’s bother, Gianfranco, alone owns eight shell companies in Panama. According to economist Ezequiel Orlando, who has done research on the Macris’ links to offshore companies, five out of the other seven companies in which Gianfranco Macri is a board member were established in December 12, 2007, only two days after Mauricio Macri became the mayor of Buenos Aires.
None had been declared by Macri when he ran for president as Argentine law requires; he has claimed he “didn't realize” he had them.
At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/217086/judge-okays-inspection-into-president-macris-sworn-statements-
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Macri, of course, is doing his best to stonewall the Panama Papers investigation - even using the Foreign Minister to do so. http://www.democraticunderground.com/110851562
This, btw, is the same foreign minister (Susana Malcorra) who he's pushing to become the next UN Secretary General.
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