2024-11-22 04:04:00
All shareholders and directors of the newspaper The nation They were absent from the conciliation hearing this Thursday. At the Broadway Hotel, at 1100 Avenida Corrientes, the chairs were empty. Only Esmeralda Miter and her brother Bartolomé (named after the late editor of the morning newspaper and the then president of the Nation, founder of the newspaper) were present. The greatest impact came, in a sort of interval, when Bartolomé Jr. revealed that he had falsely certified his father’s signature in the sale of shares of the New York company, owner of The nation. That is to say, in that alleged sale, the signature of Bartolomé Miter Sr. appeared and under that of Bartolomé Jr. as a witness to that signature. What he said yesterday during the break was that nothing was done in New York and that his father neither signed nor was he in that North American city at that time: Bartolomé Sr.’s signature was forged. Amid the scandal, the mediator decided there was a new chance for conciliation and set another hearing for December 16. Esmeralda and her lawyers have announced that without mediation she will not be able to file a complaint in New York.
The chairs were empty
The controversy occurs because, after the death of Bartolomé Sr., in March 2020, an important succession was presumed, among other things because he was a director and shareholder of The nation. However, the newspaper’s managers, the Saguier brothers, informed Esmeralda that her father had sold the shares to a little-known Marquis of Monaco, Federico Spinola, for around $50 million. The signing of the operation – they told Esmeralda – was made in New York and the money passed from the Virgin Islands to the Rock of Gibraltar, both tax havens. One of the most important banks in Switzerland, UBS, the Union of Swiss Banks, intervened in the operation. There is no documentation of all this nor is there any money, according to what Esmeralda’s lawyers, Daniel Llermanos and Gabriel Len, said at the time. Bartolomé Sr.’s lawyers, now allies of the Saguiers, say yes, that much of the stock was sold to the marquis and that Bartolomé used the money to travel with his wife. It all seems difficult to believe. In 2023, the C5N channel showed a video in which the Saguiers are seen leaving the studio of Bartolomé Sr.’s representatives.
The entire confrontation is now part of a court case in Argentina in which a conciliation hearing, mandatory for the parties, was convened on Thursday. As shareholders and directors of The nationa hall was rented at the Broadway Hotel. The fact is that there was some kind of pact between those who sided with the Saguiers and none of them joined. They were unjustified absences, since everyone had been duly notified. What is noteworthy is that even managers and shareholders who have no relation to the conflict did not participate. The mediator opened one last opportunity, inviting again for December 16th.
The scheme of matryoshka societies
Like those Russian dolls that fit into each other, the actions of Bartolomé Mitre The nation They were listed in the name of a New York company, KMB SA, the initials corresponding to Kinucha, Miter and Bartolomé. Kinucha is a sister of Bartolomé. But, in turn, KMB SA was owned by two trusts, also established in New York, BLM1 New York Trust and BLM2 New York Trust. The acronym stands for Bartolomé Luis Mitre, Esmeralda’s father. The version put forward by the Saguiers is that Bartolomé sold all the KMB shares to the curious Marquis Federico Spinola, whose title and surname are, according to Esmeralda, an invention.
It should be added that the dispute now reaches a significant figure: 12 million dollars. This happens The nation Over the past three years, it has distributed about four million dollars in dividends and presumably paid them to Spinola. Esmeralda and her lawyers had asked that the money be deposited in a judicial account, that is, that it not be sent to the Marquis until it was ascertained what really happened to the shares. The Saguiers would not accept that request, which brings the litigation to more than $60 million.
“My father didn’t sign”
Only Esmeralda, Bartolomé Jr. and lawyers Llermanos and Len were present at Thursday’s hearing. The mediator imposed confidentiality, so none of the protagonists wanted to make statements. What is known is that Bartolomé is the protagonist of the alleged sale of the New York shares since under his father’s signature, as a witness, he signed Bartolomé Jr.. While the public took a break, Bartolomé admitted – with tears in his eyes – that his father had not signed anything, that his signature was forged and that he had signed below as testimony to something that was not real. Furthermore, he said that this was done in Buenos Aires and that his father was not in New York on the date that appears in the stock sale document. Apparently, lawyers Llermanos and Len have a certificate according to which Bartolomé Sr. – according to the National Directorate of Migration - had not left the country at the time of the operation and signing of the sale. This would confirm that a deal and a false document were put together.
On the judicial level, Bartolomé Jr. is repentant: he confessed that things were falsified and admits having participated in the deception. Furthermore, he is not just any repentant: he is a member of the family he owns The nation.
New York, New York
As already mentioned Page/12Esmeralda and her lawyers are considering filing a complaint in New York, the place where everything was allegedly falsified. The best-known precedent is FIFAgate, but there are hundreds of other cases in which the US justice system has accepted jurisdiction. Sometimes the judges of that country decided to intervene without even having carried out the operation in the United States: in cases where the money passed through one of the banks or even emails were used, with North American servers, to establish an agreement . The position used is conspiracysomething similar to illicit association in Argentine law.
In New York, the declaration of Bartolomé Miter (son) who will admit that his father’s signature was forged and that he signed certifying a false signature will be a real explosion. The figure of the repentant is very widespread in North American justice. If, however, the fact is confirmed with an appraisal and immigration certificate and the elements on matryoshka doll companies, transfers to tax havens and the intervention of a Swiss bank which has already recorded heavy fines are added, the cocktail could lead to a judicial case of proportions. In the middle, a traditional and centenary newspaper, whose properties and share transactions – according to Esmeralda’s complaint - moved in tax dens, very far from any transparency.
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