The project, which also bears the signatures of deputies Eduardo Valdés, Blanca Osuna and Leopoldo Moreau, promotes the creation of a Bicameral Investigative Commission to determine how the property of the Estancia “Lago Escondido” is composed and its link with officials from different estates of the State.
In this context, a group made up of members of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE) that is in Lago Escondido to demand the recovery of these lands “as part of the national territory” denounced today having received “verbal threats and intimidation” from hooded people who work for Joe Lewis, the English tycoon who owns land in that place and who is in dispute with the courts.
Spokesmen for the MTE protesters, led by the leader Juan Grabois, assured that they were surrounded by Lewis personnel who prevented them from leaving the place when they tried to leave.
Through the initiative, the deputies also seek to clarify the reasons for the trip of federal judges, two directors of Grupo Clarín, a Buenos Aires minister, the head of CABA prosecutors and a businessman with a past in the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI). on a private flight to the ranch of tycoon Joe Lewis.
“We need an institutional and democratic environment, in which both the ruling party and the opposition are involved, to expose the film of panic and terror of which the chats that revealed the scandalous trip seem to be only the beginning,” Valdés said, presenting the project. For the national legislator, “the bicameral has to get in deep” because “those judges have made decisions to intervene in politics and harm popular political leaders.”
“Now we have caught them red-handed. The level of degradation is clear. Let’s recover the autonomy of politics. Let Lake Escondido not lead us,” Valdés said. According to the project, the commission will be made up of six national deputies and six national senators, appointed by the presidents of each chamber, respectively, respecting the plurality of the representation of both chambers.
The body must gather information, request reports and testimonial statements in order to prepare a final report that contains a well-founded opinion on the origin of the acquisition of the Estancia Lago Escondido by the Hidden Lake SA, Lewis group and on the entry of public officials to meetings and activities with businessmen, in order to investigate alleged crimes.
In the fundamentals, the deputies cite as a precedent the criminal cases opened for the sale of public land and the blockade of the public access road to Lake Escondido.
“Since 1996, that access road to Lago Escondido was closed with gates, and when someone tries to pass, they are told to use an extensive mountain path that is very difficult to travel. Since the pandemic, the billionaire ordered the erection of high fences with barbed wire and surveillance cameras. surveillance that are handled from the ranch”, the deputies assert.
Finally, the deputies maintain that the cause to open a towpath that allows public access to Lago Escondido “has been going on for 17 years” and they consider that it is “management of the national territory with impunity.”
“Despite a ruling that requires opening the public road, the Provincial government of Río Negro continues to act in favor of magnate Joe Lewis,” they say.
