A new scandal hits Freedom advances, this time in Jujuy. The libertarian deputy Manuel Quintar was denounced by a millionaire embezzlement in Ospail, the social work of the sugar workers who serves thousands of families of the engineer Ledesma. Luciano Lezano, a brand new general secretary of the Soaail, reviewed the numbers and found a hole difficult to justify: the debt of the social work went from 183 million in 2022 to 500 million, with documents signed by former authorities that were no longer in functions.
According to the complaint, part of the money would have been diverted through overfactured rentals to the Sacred Heart Srl clinic, linked to Manuel Quintar’s family, where values were paid three times higher than real. Upon assuming, Lazano and his team met a indebtedly indebted social work, with resources drained through trout contracts, leaving thousands of sugarmen without coverage and in full sanitary vulnerability.
But the most serious are the allegations of coimas. The union delegates themselves say that envelopes were paid to guarantee irregular contracts and cover the embezzlement, while the attention of 5100 direct affiliates is in danger, without remedies or treatments. “We have families with disabled children, patients with oncological treatments and people suffering from diabetes,” said Lazano.
This scandal not only compromises Manuel Quintar: he also drags Eduardo “Lule” Menem, one of the most influential and questioned operators of the ruling party. Man of maximum confidence in Milei’s small table, his figure loads with a high level of rejection even within the libertarian militancy itself. Menem is pointed out as the political support of Quintar and as the guarantor of the maneuvers of the social work of the sugar.
This case appears when the Coimagate scandal, which had splashed him already Karina Milei, still did not dissipate, reinforcing “Lule” Menem as one of the most controversial figures of Lla: accused of weaving power through favors and arrangements, and increasingly farther from the transparency image that the government promised.
