[News] What did Susana Martinengo, the former Mauricio Macri official, arrested for illegal espionage

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Susana Martinengo, the former coordinator of Presidential Documentation for Cambiemos who was detained on Monday by order of the Lomas de Zamora justice system, denied receiving intelligence reports. She even stated that Darío Nieto, Mauricio Macri's private secretary, did not give her “even a ball” when she brought her the papers, letters or gifts that were received in her area. Any suspicions about the former head of state, due to doubts, fell away.

Between 9:30 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. this Friday, Martinengo heard the accusations against him and, as Infobae had advanced, he decided to speak to deny the accusations and reject the voltage that was given to the chats that he kept with the accused spies. "He did not take intelligence reports, he took information," he said.

When asked directly if he brought reports to Dario Nieto, the woman replied: "No, nothing" and that Nieto "did not give him a ball." And she denied the chats and audios where it was stated that she sent reports "upwards". “I found out millions of things and listened to them all and said 'it happened' but it didn't happen because it was not my task; but I also thought that everything they did was legal ”, he replied

"I don't remember anything happening. I was able to give Nieto some comment on WhatsApp but I do not have anything happening to him, ”Martinengo said, noting that his link with Macri's private secretary was strictly formal and that he had no relationship with the former president because“ he was in the other tip of the offices ”.

When Villena wanted to know if she ever brought reports to Nieto or if he presented these agents to Macri's secretary, the woman replied: "Never." In another section, he stated that “Mauricio Macri was always aware of what was happening in documentation,” but he justified it by pointing out that she always passed the reports to Hernán Bielus or Darío Nieto who was his secretary, implying that they were details about his work.

As in a section of the chats that were shown to her it was stated that she had said "one knows everything", the woman explained that "Mauricio Macri was always aware of what was happening in documentation".

The first part of her investigation was devoted to explaining how she came to the world of politics. A housewife, she had suffered two robberies where a relative almost lost her life and began to link up with the security forums that were put into practice in the conurbano. She mentioned former governors Carlos Ruckauf and Felipe Solá, spoke of an offer as a councilor from the Adolfo Rodriguez Saa space, then came the link with the Aldo Rico space. In 2005, a leader named Bustos of the Justicialista Party of General San Martín told him that they were working for Macri to present himself as a deputy. Then they invited her to join.

“Already in 2015, with Mauricio running for president, she began campaigning in the province of Buenos Aires. A local partisan of Cambiemos was put there in San Martín and after that she won the presidency and consulted with Alejandro Maijenda (an official in the Marcos Peña Cabinet headquarters) to go to presidential documentation, since she previously knew that activity, "she explained. .

In another section of her statement, the woman said that with Peña she had "a good working relationship." “That he only saw Nieto when Furnó was fighting with loneliness”, in reference to María Soledad Furno Rodríguez Vidal, the direct manager of his area. And that "nobody asked her to be accountable for her work" because if she did it well "she had no problems".

On the case itself, the former official minimized the meetings she had with the spies detained at the Casa Rosada. "Since she knew that both (Sáez and Melo) work at the AFI, every so often they went to have a coffee" and she believed that they were "on the corner", that is, in the building on May 25. She argued that Araque was also going to the office. "They went to eat and talked about personal issues," he said.

Martinengo explained that in 2008 he met Sáez, who was the husband of a co-worker of his and was still working as a police officer. Thus they forged a relationship of friendship and "affection." She specified that once Sáez and Araque were the ones who brought a subject from the Uocra, they had lunch together to support her in a candidacy to be a deputy, in exchange for getting her works. At another time, she said, they introduced her to the head of the Boca brava, Rafael Di Zeo, "because she had a lot of people in La Matanza."

Regarding her relationship with the former undersecretary of Municipal Affairs of the Province of Buenos Aires, Alex Campbell, whom she mentioned in her exchanges with former AFI agents, the woman stated: "I saw him three times, once his Popes, he made a meeting of businessmen and his secretary calls me that all the important guests had dropped him (…) When he assumed and won María Eugenia (Vidal) in the province (of Buenos Aires), the idea with these guys was make the social theme. So I called Alex, told him I wanted to introduce some friends, and that's how they met. ”

"For me they toured the neighborhoods, I suppose they did intelligence in the villages, I did not feed on them, I present them to Alex Campbell to help him with social issues. I did not take intelligence parts, I took the information, "he assured.