A judicial investigation pending before the court of Ariel Lijo began to reveal new elements about the obscure functioning of the SIRA import system, implemented in 2022 during the administration of Alberto Fernández and Sergio Massa.
The case, which remains under criminal secrecy until this Thursday, points to an alleged bribery scheme to access import authorizations and the official dollar.
According to what was published by the newspaper La Nación, the file, which has been in progress for several months, has already identified at least four businessmen who would have paid bribes of between 10% and 15% to obtain permits.
Suspicious transactions exceed 3.5 million dollars and, according to sources linked to the cause, these would be real and not simulated imports.
The investigation is being led by prosecutor Franco Picardi, who has advanced a series of measures to reconstruct the authorization circuit
and detect liability.Among them, it requested urgent reports from Customs, the Secretariat of Commerce and the Central Bank, in addition to requiring the lifting of fiscal, banking and stock market secrecy of about 50 individuals and legal entities.
As part of these proceedings, nearly 30 raids were carried out and testimonies were incorporated, together with cell phones provided by officials already accused in the case.
