Barros Schelotto, Tevez linked to Macri family wind farm business

[Judi Lynn]

ARGENTINA | TODAY 08:00

Former Boca Juniors coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto and star forward Carlos Tevez contributed nearly US$18 million to Macri’s family business, Sideco Americana, which in 2016 acquired six wind farms – purchases that are now being investigated by the courts.

Emilia Delfino
EMILIA DELFINO
Subeditora de Política de Diario Perfil.



Former Boca Juniors coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Xeneize and Argentina star Carlos Tevez invested money that helped fund the purchases of wind farms by Sideco Americana, a firm linked to former president Mauricio Macri’ and his family, a new investigation has revealed.

The courts are currently investigating the money trail left behind by Sideco and its wind park business, amid claims of alleged irregularities in the purchase of six wind farms (a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity).

The new revelation, concerning Barros Schelotto’s investment, has emerged after new information from the United States came to light as part of the investigation, sources with direct access to the casefile, told Perfil.

Last year, Perfil revealed that Tevez was the owner of 10 percent of shares of a corporation created by Sideco and its partners for its ventures into the renewable energy business.

More:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/macris-wind-farm-money-trail-points-toward-tevez-barros-schelotto.phtml

Yet another Teflon President.

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1. The scandal here being, that Macri then sold the business to the Chinese for a $70 million profit

Which, of course, is illegal for an Argentine president to do (he did it through his brother, Gianfranco, and his chief accountant Víctor Payaslian).

It also looks every bit like a Trump-style bribe.

The kind where the bribe is collected through the resale of an asset, to the briber, for far more than its real value.

And here's the kicker: there's reason to believe the biggest investor in the SIDELI deal, famed football forward Carlos Tevez, never received his payout for the 66% share he paid in.

That was a $17 million+ investment on his part, and it looks like Macri was stringing him along (lo caminaron, as they say in Argentina).

As for Barros Schelotto (pictured above), his investment was much smaller - less than $1 million. It's unclear whether he received his share after the December 2017 sale to China's Goldwind.

He lives in L.A. at the moment, is probably reluctant to testify.

Thanks for posting this long-simmering - but much ignored - story, Judi. They don't call Macri the Trump of the Pampas for nothing:

One had golden showers; the other, goldwind.