They denounce AFIP macrista for hiding OFFSHORE accounts

The 950 accounts abroad that were not declared during the management of the former president Mauricio Macri, with more than a million dollars each, is being investigated by the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) from the tribune point of view. But to this, the federal prosecutor Federico Delgado has just added a criminal complaint.

According to the magistrate, there would be enough elements to investigate a possible cover-up by the AFIP authorities in the management of Change of these accounts. At that time, those who were in charge of the entity were Alberto Abad and Leandro Cuccioli.

Delgado’s investigation arose after the complaint by the economist, taxpayer and former coordinator of the capital flight specialist team of the Center for Economy and Finance for Argentine Development (Cefid-AR) Jorge Gaggero.

Recently, AFIP detected the existence of encrypted information that had never been revealed since it was provided to the collecting agency in recent years, by the tax information exchange agreements between countries.

Abbot and Cuccioli were in charge of the direction of the entity during the Macrista government. Now it will be the judge who will determine the consequences at a criminal level of this action and who will investigate why the information that reached the tax agency in late 2017 was not followed up.

The accounts are mostly located in Uruguay and total more than $ 2.6 billion. Of the 950 final beneficiaries, 700 did not admit having any assets abroad.

Encrypted information

The tax-level research started by the entity in charge of Mercedes Marcó del Pont, which is being carried out despite the extension of the fiscal fair that was determined with the social and mandatory isolation dictated by the National Government due to the coronavirus pandemic, seeks to resolve what happened between December 2017 and December 2019, when the current government arrived.

During this period, it was detected that information provided by the OECD had never been decrypted, in a process that even intervened on software intended to identify these taxpayers.

Alberto Abad was in charge of the AFIP in the macrista era

The identities of the account holders are protected by fiscal secrecy, but the AFIP should be able to collect the information and do the data crossing to rule out those who participated in money laundering in recent times.

The gap between the end of 2017 and the end of 2019 will also be one of the keys that will be elucidated through the criminal investigation. The crimes could include non-compliance with the duties of an official and adulteration of tax information, among others.

Likewise, the taxpayers informed in 2017 and 2018 by the OECD could be liable to see their adherence to the money laundering of Cambiemos fall, losing the possibility of being excluded from criminal prosecution.

Also latent is the probability that the number of undeclared accounts and the total dollar amount will increase.

As the AFIP advances and opens the encrypted information sent by the OECD, things will become clearer.

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