It looks like a normal photo, of any summer on the Argentine coast. Three friends who always venate in the same spa are and share a glass of pink wine in the dive of the house of one of them and talk. So far, everything normal, but the story changes when it is discovered that the protagonists of the photo are an important politician, a relevant prosecutor and an entrepreneur with judicial problems.
The protagonists of the photo are the deputy Cristian Ritondo, federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli and businessman Pablo Torres García. The latter is a well -known insurance broker who also owns the Rosell Boher winery and has the concession of the Cerro Bayo ski center in Villa La Angostura. His insurance company is called TG, by his last name is known in the world of insurers as a company closely linked to the PRO, especially because his greatest growth was during the efforts of Mauricio Macri and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Just as there is a clear relationship between Héctor Martínez Sosa and Alberto Fernández, Torres García is linked almost naturally with the PRO.
Cristian Ritondo is the President of the PRO Block In the Chamber of Deputies, an ally of the Government and recently denounced by a series of offshore companies in the United States on behalf of his wife. His cause processed in Comodoro Py and the judge is Sebastián Ramos and prosecutor Eduardo Taiano.
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Carlos Stornelli is the oldest prosecutor of Comodoro Py, who had cases such as notebooks in recent years and others more rimbombantes in the 1990s. In addition, for being the most experienced, he has ancestry on other prosecutors and even internal differences such as prosecutor Ramiro González, who did not invite him to his birthday. At that party there was Cristian Ritondo, whose wife came out in the video that viralized the celebration. In other words, Ritondo’s ties with power are quite broad. To this must add friendship with the judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and on the other hand also its weight in the Council of the Magistracy because the PRO has two members in that agency that decides on the designation or expulsion of the judges.
The image of Stornelli, Ritondo and Torres García was taken by a usual source of this magazine from the CR spain Pinamar and are sitting at the front of Torres García’s house that is crossing the street. Both the entrepreneur and Ritondo and Stornelli are common in Pinamar and they have known each other for more than 20 years, according to this magazine.
Why is the meeting striking? They could argue that it would be hypocritical not to greet themselves in public if they have been known for more than two decades, but the key is how they handle their roles and the possible tensions of interests that may arise. The prosecutor’s function is to ensure legality and justice, and must act impartially. If a prosecutor has a close friendship with a politician or an entrepreneur, there could be concerns about possible conflicts of interest or the perception that his objectivity is compromised.
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Politicians, and especially a deputy, make decisions that can affect legislation, economy and public life in general. A friendship with a prosecutor or an entrepreneur could be seen as an undue influence, especially if decisions are considered that benefit any of those involved.
And finally, entrepreneurs P seek to maximize their interests and profits. While in it is legitimate to have personal relationships, friendly relations with a prosecutor or a politician can be seen with distrust, not only by society in general but also by the competitors of the field in which the businessman develops. The witness of the meeting argues that it was a brief conversation and that the one who arrived last and left first was Stornelli, who went to his wife’s call. Ritondo stayed for a while longer. What did they talk about? Soccer? Politics? Or the subject of judicial issues? It will remain in the mystery.
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