{"id":340,"date":"2017-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armando.info\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-10-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:00:00","slug":"brazilian-lava-jato-companies-tried-their-scheme-in-argentina-to-impose-surcharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armando.info\/en\/brazilian-lava-jato-companies-tried-their-scheme-in-argentina-to-impose-surcharges\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Lava Jato Companies tried their Scheme in Argentina to impose surcharges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

The loan granted by \r\nBNDES expired in September 2015. Therefore, Capitanich traveled to Rio de \r\nJaneiro and agreed \r\n<\/A>an extension to the contract. However, in January 2017 the Brazilian \r\nbank said \r\n<\/A>that it would not resume the financing. A month later, the recently \r\nelected governor of Chaco, Domingo Peppo, signed an agreement \r\n<\/A>with the central government for US$ 2.5 billion to replace the \r\ninternational credit with BNDES and complete the remaining 33% of the aqueduct. \r\nIn this new stage, OAS was replaced in the consortium by company \r\nCPC.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

If all the resources \r\nspent and budgeted are added up, the final value of the aqueduct is estimated at \r\nat least US$ 380.3 million, a US$ 48.6 million difference from the initial \r\namount. \"OAS is the northern Odebrecht,\" Guti\u00e9rrez said and added, \"In this \r\nproject, more than four times than expected was spent in pesos and all deadlines \r\nare past due. But, above anything else, the aqueduct was not \r\nfinished.\"<\/p>\n\n\n

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SOURCE: SCREENSHOT OF INSTITUTIONAL VIDEO OF THE WATER AND MAINTENANCE SERVICE COMPANY OF THE PROVINCIAL STATE - SAMEEP.The government announced that the aqueduct would be ready by September 2014, but to date, it has not been finished.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Four months later, \r\nthe governor and former chief of staff of Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner, Jorge \r\nCapitanich, opened the envelopes and the four bidders were Techint S.A. and \r\nthree consortia, including the one that was made up of OAS Limited, Supercemento \r\nS.A. and Rovella Carranza S.A.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

In February 2011, \r\nthe government of Chaco awarded \r\n<\/A>the work to the business alliance made up of the Brazilian OAS, \r\nalthough its bid had been higher than the others, provincial Deputy Livio \r\nGuti\u00e9rrez said in a complaint \r\n<\/A>filed with the Attorney General's Office of Administrative \r\nInvestigations, to which Chequeado and Armando Info had access.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

The work - explained \r\nthe provincial government - would be executed with national resources, funds \r\nfrom Chaco province (through the Federal Solidarity Fund) and international financing<\/A> from BNDES, obtained \r\nby OAS. In July 2011, Capitanich met \r\n<\/A>with representatives of the company \"to establish details on the \r\nexecution\". The works began in August of that year, with a construction \r\ntimeframe of 36 months. The Lava Jato<\/I> explosion changed everything. \"In \r\nMarch 2015, when the case was known, the pipeline company OAS stopped the \r\ndeliveries and BNDES suspended the disbursements on the indebtedness<\/A> taken by the province for about \r\nUS$ 160 million (...) and paid US$ 116 million only,\" said Deputy Guti\u00e9rrez. He \r\nadded that despite the redeterminations made and that the date of completion was \r\n2014, the aqueduct was not finished. An institutional video<\/A> of the provincial company of Chaco in charge of \r\nthe water service (SAMEEP), published in October of that year, asserted that 67% \r\nof the work was completed.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n

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