In court, the charges were read in the "Notebooks" case, where the UIF presented its claims within the "Camarita" segment, focused on the cartelization of public works.
According to the prosecution, 175 illegal payments were received, with Julio De Vido, Cristina Fernández, José López, and Ernesto Clarens being held responsible as co-authors. It is stated that the payments received by the former president were made between January 2008 and September 2010, and were subsequently delivered to Daniel Muñoz, former private secretary of Néstor Kirchner.
The financier Clarens provided a list detailing the dates and amounts of illegal cash payments received. This list accounts for 175 bribes attributed to Cristina Kirchner in this segment of the case. The sum of these bribes exceeds 171,224,710 pesos.
According to the UIF, there was an "oily pyramid collection circuit" whose final recipients were the former presidents Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. According to the list, out of the 175 bribes, 40 were paid by JCR SA of the Relats family. These payments amounted to 85,493,691 pesos and were made between February and March 2011, June and November 2011, February and August 2012, and between November 2012 and December 2013.
While JCR was paying these 40 bribes, the company benefited from 44 contracts awarded by the National Directorate of Viality, for a total amount of 5,294,597,026.18 pesos. Of this universe of tenders, 35 were awarded exclusively to JCR S.A. for 4,077,244,571.09 pesos. Additionally, nine works were awarded under the modality of a Temporary Union of Enterprises (UTE) for 1,148,330,884.33 pesos.
While JCR was paying million-dollar bribes to the former president, it was simultaneously providing them with income through another mechanism. As a collaborating defendant, Víctor Manzanares, former accountant for the Kirchner family, provided details about JCR's link to the former leaders. Néstor and Cristina Kirchner leased the Los Sauces Hotel Complex to the Relats Group.
The former accountant confessed that the administration of the complex "had the highest rental values, but less occupancy and fewer rooms." In this context, he detailed that administrator Juan Carlos Relats "rented the entire complex to the Kirchners for 120,000 dollars a month." According to the accountant, this income served as the "main financial leverage in the increase of the Kirchners' assets." It was 68% of the company's total billing, with its main tenant being the Kirchners.
A single contract was signed with a rental value of 90,000 dollars, containing a clause that increased this value whenever hotel occupancy exceeded 50% of the occupancy level." By providing more data, Manzanares stated that Los Sauces was leased to the Relats Group for 11 years at 90,000 dollars a month: "this contract meant an income of between 10 and 11 million dollars for the Kirchner economy." This business relationship ended in 2016 because they could not agree on the amount of the rent to be renewed. For this reason, the former accountant of Cristina Kirchner said that the hotel was "the gem in the crown."
The list of defendants sent to trial in the Camarita segment includes Cristóbal López, Fabián de Sousa, and his brother Osvaldo de Sousa. They are attributed five bribes of 14 million pesos paid to the former president between September and November 2011 and from February to August 16, 2012.
