Economy Minister Sergio Massa has already defined who will take care of the Casa de la Moneda. He chose Ángel Mario Elector of Cordoba as the new president of the institution, replacing Rodolfo Gabrielli of Mendoza, who had been forced to resign last week by decision of the Finance Palace.
Official sources confirm that Massa offered the post to the Elector in a telephone conversation. The man from Córdoba, who was governor José Manuel de la Sota’s finance minister for several years, accepted and is scheduled to meet with the minister next Tuesday January 10th define lines of work.
Elector was Minister of Finance of Córdoba from 2003 to 2015. He held the governorships of De la Sota and also held the position in the first term of Juan Schiaretti. He holds a degree in accounting from the National University of Córdoba and works as a consultant.
The Casa de la Moneda is the state body that takes care of printing the banknotes – or sending them to be done in other countries – together with other public documents.
On December 29, Sergio Massa asked Rodolfo Gabrielli, the Peronist leader who had been governor of Mendoza, to resign.
The decision was reportedly motivated by the fact that the economy minister was dissatisfied “with the presentation of the year’s results” that Gabrielli allegedly made on the entity he controls.
Other rumors speculate that the decision would be expedited by the deficit of the Casa de la Moneda in its annual budget.
Rodolfo Federico Gabrielli was nominated in 2020 by Alberto Fernández. A former governor and former minister of the economy in Mendoza, he was a man who had been placed in other positions when the president was chief of cabinet to Cristina Kirchner, such as the airport control body of the ANAC.
Gabrielli’s departure occurred in the same week that the Executive decided to remove Victoria Donda from the INADI front.
At the beginning of last November, Jorge Lanata denounced Rodolfo Gabrielli in his program Periodismo Para Todos (PPT) for an alleged family business which he brought inside the Casa de la Moneda, taking advantage of his position as president of that organization.
“The Mint has entered into a direct contract with a British company to purchase payment and transaction platform software. The company is called Callao Holding, is based in the UK and has a branch in Argentina,” the driver contextualized. .
And continued: “He got a contract for $9,578,888 in April of last year and a $2,425,000 contract extension in April of this year. Being a foreign company, while having a local company, payment was agreed in dollars or pounds in a foreign bank.”
that way, he avoided “paying taxes in the country”. In this sense, he specified: “Of course, if the contract had been made with the Argentine company, they would have given pesos at the official exchange rate, and that’s how they took dollars abroad.”
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Source: Clarin
