Monosyllabic when it had to respond to defenses, Devotee -With 44 years in the organization- he said: “I do not know that a verbal order can kick off an audit.” At the trial, Nestor Sosa said that Alberto Abad In this way, he transmitted to him that he should start a survey on the oil company.
Devoto never pointed at Abad. In fact, they share defense attorneys in the case in charge of Maria Servini by the maneuvers of AFIP around Oil. But a central fact that he highlighted was the power of the general administrator to decide the causes of exclusion of the payment plans, a fact that triggered the focus on Oil the resolution that marked the refusal to accept the payment of installments of the plans on him ITC. But at the same time, he lamented the “failure” that the body had to make a “record of those denounced” by the AFIP. That is Abad ended up solving for the specific case and with the objective of blocking Oil.
Devoto’s sayings contrast with what was stated in the investigation: Despite apologizing that his testimony could seem “prepared”, he justified it in that he had studied the entire case to defend himself before Servini. In that case, he claimed to have had Oil’s tax status report in his hand. Yesterday, he said no. And that he only discussed with Candina the criminal approach of what had already been written by the lawyer. He sponsored it as well but almost as a functional reflex, he hinted. He even recognized that there was no precedent -except for defenses- of hiring outside lawyers like Ricardo Gil Lavedra, less as plaintiffs for AFIP.
“I had no contact with the bankruptcy and bankruptcy. Which does not mean that the process has not been commented to me as head of the legal service. I’ve been aware of it, ”he said. “Did you meet with Jimena de la Latorre and (Judge Javier) Cosentino?” Asked a defender. “Yes, I was. And it is an issue that is being aired in the other cause so in return I ask you to excuse me. It was one of the facts that are part of the accusation ”, he excused himself.
Devoto was confronted with some terms of the initial complaint he sponsored, the wording of which indicated that Oil had “received” and “withheld” taxes. “Those two terms are good from Castilian but not tax,” he acknowledged. In fact, they mean different things in tax matters.
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