translated from Spanish: Detained public officials: using debit cards intended for the fuel of official vehicles for personal purchases

Two officials from the Directorate-General for Culture and education of the province of Buenos Aires were arrested for embezzlement of public funds and Illicit association. They used 600 debit cards for personal purchases: sports boats, cars, ATVs, motorcycles and jet skis, among other objects. We’re talking millions of pesos.

This is Gustavo Chirambero and Diego Burgos, heads of the fuel and Atutomotores Department of the educational portfolio. Néstor Casado and Horacio Gabriel Makowski were also apprehended, who were not detained because they filed an order to exempt justice from prison.

The arrests occurred after a series of raids that were made in La Plata, Berisso, City Bell and Punta Lara.

The case began on 26 April, when police arrested a 29-year-old man identified as Walter Cejas in a police checkpoint, who worked at a gas station located on 44 and 31 street in La Plata. The prosecutor Platense-Juan Cruz Condomí Alcorta-explained that The man “got nervous” and when he was required the documentation of the Grand Cherokee truck he was driving he dropped 15 debit cards and 50,000 pesos in cash-they were Bapro copres cards, which use public agencies to load fuel in Official vehicles-. Researchers suspect that in the operation could also be involved other employees of the service station, as one day after the arrest of eyebrows committed suicide general manager of that trade, Maximiliano Normann, 44 years.

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