Guillermo Bellingi, former official of the Attorney General's Office during Gils Carbó's administration, was found dead in Villa Elisa. The Justice system is investigating the circumstances of the event, which shocked just days before the trial for the purchase of a property
The impunity of the nefarious Kirchnerism is once again exposed to society following a truly chilling event. While the country undergoes a profound process of institutional cleansing under the current national administration, the tragic death of Guillermo Bellingi, former Deputy General Director of the Attorney General's Office during the ultra-Kirchnerist administration of Alejandra Gils Carbó, has raised all alarms in the justice system.
The former official, 55 years old, who also served as a macroeconomics professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), was found dead in broad daylight with a stab wound to the chest. The most alarming and suggestive aspect of this tragic end is that the discovery occurred just 20 days before the historic oral and public trial for corruption in which he was to testify and be judged for the looting of the State.
Guillermo Bellingi
The macabre discovery took place this Tuesday in the La Plata locality of Villa Elisa, specifically on 8th Street, between 406 and 407, after a passerby immediately alerted the emergency line 911. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers of the Buenos Aires police found the lifeless body of the former official dressed in a green sweatshirt, jeans, and brown shoes.
Next to his corpse was a "criollo-type knife" with a wooden handle, its respective sheath, a blue backpack, and his personal belongings intact: a wallet, a cellphone, and a watch. Despite the lethal wound being located in the lower part of the chest, slanting towards the left side and the body "showing no signs of defense or other injuries", the hypothesis of a "possible suicide" evokes deep rejection and skepticism among a citizenry tired of the silencing during the K era.
The death of Bellingi destabilizes a key oral trial that aimed to expose the dark corridors of corruption from the previous administration. The former official was to sit in the defendant's chair before the Federal Oral Court No. 8 —composed of judges Gabriela López Iñiguez, Nicolás Toselli, and Sabrina Namer— with an accusation brought by the Attorney General Marcelo Colombo, in an oral debate scheduled to begin in less than three weeks.
Guillermo Bellingi
The underlying case, rigorously instructed by federal judge Julián Ercolini, revolves around a blatant maneuver involving the direction and payment of massive illicit commissions in the purchase of a property intended for the Attorney General's Office located at Perón 667, completed in 2013.
The judicial investigation precisely exposed the modus operandi of the corruption of the K caste. Under the mandate of Gils Carbó, the agency acquired the aforementioned building for the staggering sum of $43,850,000. However, the public bidding was nothing more than a façade: the Justice determined that the contracts between the beneficiaries of the commissions were signed beforehand and secretly, before the bidding process was officially published with the name of the winner.
At the center of this illicit maneuver was Juan Carlos Thill, half-brother of Bellingi, who received a commission of $3 million pesos at the time —equivalent to about an astronomical US$ 500,000 back then— under the guise of "advising" the real estate agency representing the seller, the firm Arfinsa. For the fiscal investigators, this close family tie was the central instrument deliberately designed to create a fraudulent structure that would provide a misleading "appearance of legality" to the diversion of state funds.
Guillermo Bellingi
While the current Argentina under President Javier Milei advances firmly towards transparency and the total eradication of state privileges, the main actors involved in K impunity remain linked to the shadows of the past. The former Attorney General Alejandra Gils Carbó, who had to leave her position in 2017 after being criminally charged, currently serves as a defense attorney for the controversial Kirchnerist businessman Gerardo Ferreyra —head of Electroingeniería— in the emblematic case of the "Notebooks of Bribes".
Since her departure from the Public Prosecutor's Office, the agency has been temporarily under the leadership of Deputy Attorney Eduardo Casal. This tragic outcome surrounding the figure of Bellingi casts a shadow of doubt over the extent of the mafias that Kirchnerism built and that justice, free from pressures in the new political era, remains committed to dismantling
