Walter Martelloowner of National Electricity Regulatory Agency (ENRE)assured this Thursday that Edesur and Edenor must invest “strictly” 34 percent of their income from taxes a improve the system for the winter.
“Via ENRE we sent you a note so that 34% of what concerns the collection of fees strictly concerns investments and that they send us within a period of 72 hours, under the warning of the sanctions imposed on us by the concession contract and of the deviations from it by the companies Edesur and Edenor”, said the official in dialogue with Radio Telam.
He also stressed that the intervention in Edesur of George Ferrara “gave rise to the first checks and audits aimed at the investment plan”.
As he explained, Ferraresi periodically makes a tour together with the Edesur area managers to “monitor in the area” some of the works “that they have undertaken to carry out promptly”.
Furthermore, Martello indicated that another objective of the visits is “to obtain information from the physical performance of the mayors” regarding compliance with these investments, “beyond the checks carried out by ENRE on technical matters”.
On the other hand, the head of ENRE recalled that “from September to today, in many cases for these violations, they have been fined: in the case of Edesur for almost 4,000 million pesos and in the case of Edenor for almost 800 million pesos”.
“We hope to move forward with that situation achieve a winter that has to do with strict compliance with what is proposed“, hill.
The government’s escalation against Edesur
The government’s first attack on Edesur came on Friday March 17, when he presented a Penal complaint against the electricity concessionaire due to the consequences of the massive power outages recorded in the middle of a record heat wave for the month.
The controller of the National Electricity Regulatory Agency (ENRE), Walter Martello, revealed that the reported offenses were “Fraud due to interruption of agreed rights (Article 173, paragraph 11, Criminal Code); abandonment of people (art. 106 criminal code) e Obstruction of public services (art. 194 criminal code)”.
Three days later, the government gave up One more step and decided A Edesur’s “administrative” intervention. After a meeting between the Minister of the Economy, Sergio Massa; of the Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royón, and Walter Martello, it was decided to advance “in an “administrative intervention to supervise the provision of the service and the investment works”.
The mayor of Avellaneda, George Ferrara, was chosen to fill the position of comptroller. Although he is known for his adherence to the ranks of Vice President Cristina Kirchner, the mayors of the southern suburbs have asked that “one of them” participate in Edesur’s decisions. It later emerged that this move had not been agreed with President Alberto Fernández himself, in another official in-party spark.
Subsequently, on 22 March, the Government asked the Justice to prevent the departure from the country of nine executives who make up the management of the Edesur company.
According to the extension of the complaint presented by Martello, the Government believes that Edesur “has intentionally lost its operational capability“And for this he accuses his top management of”intentionally frustrate” the electrical servicehit during the last heat wave that occurred in March and left thousands of users in the dark.
“It will be said that they have not yet been charged or investigated,” Martello anticipated, according to the text of his judicial presentation to which he consented. clarion. And he went further: he warned that some of the accused “are people with high purchasing power who have all the elements and possibilities available to be able to leave the country and escape justice”.
According to the official argument, the precautionary measure aims to “prevent any attempt by an individual to achieve impunity” and “avoid the risk that, in this case, the defendants could hinder the action of justice leave the country”. The expansion of the complaint detailed and specified with proper names to the corporate domeof whose members it intends to restrict the ability to travel.
Source: Clarin
