The Supreme Court has called for a meeting with officials from the AFIP tax bureau following versions that allege the agency run by Ricardo Echegaray is conducting an investigation on the head of the Maximum Tribunal Ricardo Lorenzetti and his son.
In a statement published on the Judicial Information Center (CIJ in Spanish), the Supreme Court said the meeting would help “clarify” the alluded tax investigation.
Except for Carlos Fayt and Raúl Zaffaroni who is not in the country, the other five of members of the court signed the statement: Ricardo Lorenzetti, Elena Highton de Nolasco, Enrique Petracchi, Juan Carlos Maqueda y Carmen Argibay. “No public statements will be made on the issue,” the text warns.
A“tax persecution” was alluded in the past days targeting Lorenzetti which the AFIP, however, rejected.
Comments by Kirchnerite MPs referring to the members of Argentina’s top tribunal as the “opposition” further escalated tensions between the national administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the Judiciary, days after the Supreme Court ruled against the government-sponsored justice reform and declaring the unconstitutionality of popular voting to elect the members of the Council of Magistrates under party ballots.
Meanwhile, PRO party lawmaker Federico Pinedo filed a complaint against AFIP head Echegaray demanding the “pressures” on Lorenzetti to be investigated.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald