A network of alleged fund diversions within the Metal Workers' Union (UOM) has brought a La Cámpora activist to the center of a judicial investigation. Movements of money that did not match the union's accounting records were detected. Federal Justice ordered a series of raids and measures to determine the final destination of the budget items, which, according to the initial complaint, ended in accounts unrelated to the union's activities. According to the court documents, "direct bank transfers to third-party accounts that have no contractual link with the metallurgical institution" were identified. This statement seriously compromised the legal situation of the La Cámpora activist, who held strategic functions in the finance area of the union led by Abel Furlán. For the moment, the accused's defense denies the irregularities and claims it is an internal political persecution, although the documents seized in last week's operations seem to indicate otherwise. The seized accounting books and electronic terminals showed a pattern of expenses that experts described as "a systematic scheme for draining funds for personal and partisan purposes." Justice is now awaiting the results of call logs to determine if there were accomplices within the union's leadership who allowed or facilitated the diversion of the assets under investigation. The case, which is advancing under strict summary secrecy, analyzes the leader's responsibility for the administration of resources destined for social assistance and union infrastructure. The investigation was triggered by an internal audit that revealed "unbridgeable inconsistencies between income from contributions and declared expenditures," which led to a formal filing before the Comodoro Py courts. Judicial sources confirmed to the Argentine News Agency that the implicated person had direct access to authorized signatures for the movement of funds, which would have facilitated the asset extraction maneuver. One of the key witnesses in the case testified to the prosecutor that "the discretion in handling the funds was total and responded to direct orders that did not go through the board of directors." In the context of the expert investigations, it was detected that a part of the money would have been used to finance territorial political activities outside the institutional life of the UOM.
