The latest issue of NOTICIAS magazine is a reissue of a 1995 cover: “Ruckauf’s Secret.” That note revealed the links between the then vice president and the Yoga School Buenos Airesthe coercive group led by John Percowicz that has just been disrupted by the Federal Justice.
Over the course of the week, NOTICIAS tried -unsuccessfully- to contact Charles Ruckauf. However, once the new cover was published, the leader responded with a brief message via WhatsApp: “I had no connection with these people. I only gave a talk at the request of journalist Ovidio Martínez. He was helping political Rubén Baldoni. But freedom of the press is sacred. Greetings and good weekend, “he wrote.
When the scandal had broken in the ’90s, Ruckauf had acknowledged having given two lectures at the Yoga School Buenos Aires during the time that he had been a national deputy and having sponsored, as Minister of the Interior, the symphony “Dionysios and the Lone Wolf”, composed by the oboist Mariano Krauz and the violinist Rubén González, both students of Percowicz.
Now, since it became known that the federal judge ariel had ordered the arrest of Percowicz and 18 other people, the Buenos Aires Yoga School became the main topic on the agenda and every day new macabre details about the operation of the organization are known. Justice investigates suspects for a series of crimes, including human trafficking and money laundering. However, the most striking thing about the story is that it had already been told, in detail, thirty years ago.
The Buenos Aires Yoga School and Menemism
In the 1995 NEWS cover story, signed by Ed Zunino Y Fernando Amatonot only the history and the foundation of the Yoga School Buenos Airesbut also his connections with the Menemist power and Ruckauf appears as the main politician related to Percowicz.
The article tells that, in January 1993, Ruckauf met in Villa Gesell a former advertising model named Margarita “Maggie” Las Heraswho invited him to a tango and humor show organized by the Yoga School Buenos Aires.
That was the beginning of the friendship. Months later, The Heras She was hired at the Casa Rosada as a press assistant for the Ministry of the Interior.
At that time, the former judge Mariano Berges had already started his investigation against the group led by Percowicz. “On March 25, 1994, while Judge Bergés was raiding a home of the Yoga School, he appeared on the spot as ‘Minister Ruckauf’s secretary to learn the reasons for such a crude proceeding against an institution to which he has adhered since his inception. in the bowels. The presence of the elegant woman who recognizes General Gregorio de Las Heras among her ancestors was taken as political pressure by the magistrate. The first throughout his investigation,” narrates the NOTICIAS note.
At the time, Ruckauf He said that the woman had been sanctioned for the outburst and, although she did not continue to work directly for him, she continued in the Government as secretary of Carlos Corach.
