Buenos Aires, February 16 (NA) – After national senator for Unión por la Patria Juliana Di Tullio announced that she will file a complaint with the Justice system, Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno assured this Monday that “all requirements have been met” in the public contracting of the Argentine Association of English Culture (AACI), the entity whose executive co-director is María Josefina Rouillet, wife of the Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger, to provide training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship.
In their latest Twitter exchange, the foreign minister replied to the legislator this Monday: “Read this and maybe you'll save time that you can use for the Foundation you belong to or in not giving advice that isn't asked for. All requirements met,” commented the official under Javier Milei's administration.
“In view of the above, it can be concluded that in the analyzed procedure, the provisions established in Decree 2017/202 have been fully met, and the additional transparency mechanism pending adoption is properly underway,” concludes the cited report.
The latest spat between Quirno and Di Tullio. Echoing the controversy, Di Tullio cited the Argentine News Agency for documenting the official paperwork for the contract signed by the Chancellery with the English teaching company. Di Tullio also resorted to sarcasm by commenting that “perhaps the Sturzenegger family is the only one with the 'specialty' of speaking English, let's say everything”.
And she quoted: “In view of the above, it can be concluded that in the analyzed procedure, the provisions established in Decree 2017/202 have been fully met, and the additional transparency mechanism pending adoption is properly underway.”
The Case. The nine-month contract for a total sum of $114,044,133 was processed through a simple adjudication by specialty, and due to the family relationship, the file activated the integrity procedure established in Decree 2017/2017, with the intervention of the Office of the Anticorruption Bureau (OA) and the General Audit Office of the Nation (SIGEN).
According to official documents, the proposal presented by the AACI to the Ministry was prepared by Sturzenegger's wife.
“A load of baloney,” the Peronist leader stated bluntly.
Sturzenegger is being criminally charged, and an investigation into the 114 million peso contract with AACI is requested.
Subsequently, Quirno shared an internal document that validates the procedure carried out by the Chancellery to award the multi-million dollar contract to the English teaching company linked to Sturzenegger.
“Read this and maybe you'll save time that you can use for the Foundation you belong to or in not giving advice that isn't asked for.”
