The name of Omar Maturano is associated with the railway. For more than three decades he has been the general secretary of La Fraternidad, the union of train and locomotive machinists (conductors), a union that in the golden years of the sector in Argentina had representatives in most of the towns and cities in which there was a train station.
As the years went by and the closure of branches, the powerful railway union lost power, but not its general secretary.
The union member’s assets grew with properties abroad, houses, apartments and high-end cars, all registered in his wife’s name.
This investigation arises from information revealed on LN+ by journalist Luis Gasulla, who reported in great detail that Maturano had a house in a farm country on the outskirts of Chascomús, in the province of Buenos Aires. Maturano’s property is made up of two lots of one hectare each. On one lot he built the house and on another a stable for show jumping horses, a passion of his wife María Fernanda Selva, 36 years old.
From this name, NOTICIAS found a company based in Delaware, United States, called Pampa Investments LLC that belongs to Selva and that also owns an apartment in Miami in the Skyline on Brickell Condominium tower. According to records accessed by this magazine, the apartment is valued at around $450,000.
This is not the only property of Selva, Maturano’s wife. The family house is in Villa Ortúzar, on Plaza Street, and is a 560-square-meter property with more than 40 square meters deep, which makes it one of the few on the block that reaches halfway up the block.
According to Google Street View images, and compared with automotive records, in front of the house on Plaza Street they usually park an Audi Q5 truck, an Audi A1, a RAM truck, a Chevrolet Tracker and even a collectible Ford Falcon, which Maturano has in his wife’s name. The house also underwent modifications: they barred all the windows and added an electric fence.
More goods. In the judicial world, Maturano’s wife also has records. In the Commercial jurisdiction they filed a complaint against him for a conflict with his former partner in a restaurant in San Isidro called Tribu. In that file there is a revealing piece of information: among the documentation provided to Justice is the contract for a concession to set up a gastronomic venture on railroad land, in front of the Anchorena station, of the Tren de la Costa. The contract is between the state railway operator SOFSE and AINOHA SRL, Selva’s company.
The document reveals a peculiarity. Selva is, in addition to Maturano’s wife, an employee of Belgrano Cargas, the state freight railway operator that is part, along with SOFSE, of the same group of state companies under the orbit of Ferrocarriles Argentinos. That is, the same State that pays her salary, allocates her the premises and signs the joint payments to her husband.
Selva is an information leak point for Maturano. On her social networks, she publishes photos of trips they made to Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, but there are also photos in the United States, Singapore or England, where they usually stay at the Ritz in London.
In addition to travel, another weakness of Selva is horses. The Chascomús farm was designed to raise equestrian jumping specimens, a passion that he transferred to the daughter he has with the leader of the railroad workers. Selva’s love of horses runs in the family. His grandfather, Obdulio Selva, was a donkey rider, so that passion mutated into another, much more expensive horse-riding activity. So much so that last September he launched a technical clothing and riding equipment business called Obdulio Selva Equestrian Boutique, in tribute to his grandfather. Among the products it offers there are frames from the French brand Hermés.
As in the case of Hugo Moyano, the Truckers union leader, who knew how to build a robust wealth scheme around his wife, Maturano also chose the same path. Different unions, same styles.
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