US EditionEspert Confirms Link to Machado but Says US$200K Payment Wasn't 'Criminal'
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Espert confirms link to Machado but says US$200K payment wasn't 'criminal'
La Libertad Avanza deputy confirms he received US$200,000 payment, but says it came from consultancy work for Guatemalan firm; Candidate says he had several meetings with Machado as Milei issues public backing, denounces “Kirchnerite operation.”
The LLA candidate admitted yesterday to having received $200,000, but said it was for a job done for People's Mines; that signature is pointed out by the U.S. Justice as a link in the washing structure
The candidate for national deputy for La Libertad Avanza denied having been financed by Machado in 2019 and clarified that he received the money from a mining company that requested his services as an economist
The deputy seeking to renew his bank turned in his version after the existence of documentation of the Bank of America was known.
Corrugated by the appearance of the Bank of America document that certifies the transfer of $200,000 in his favor, Congressman José Luis Espert had to go out to give some outline explanation of why he had received that money from a trust made up of people involved in a drug trafficking and fraud case. After several days of elusive television babbling, Espert confessed that he received the money but said it was a payment for a consulting job for …
The national deputy Victoria Tolosa Paz crossed again harshly to José Luis Espert, after the economist tried to explain the payment of $200,000 in advance for a job he never did. The payment, according to the legislator himself, came from the Guatemalan company Minas del Pueblo, pointed out by the DEA as part of a structure linked to drug trafficking and denounced in February 2021 by the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Guatemala for illegal expl…
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