They arrested a former president of Vicentin in a cause for scams with the cereal

In addition to Buyatti, Roberto Gazze was also arrested former member of the company’s directory. Prosecutors ordered more than twenty raids in different cities of Santa Fe and the city of Buenos Aires, the newspaper La Capital de Rosario reported. Among those investigated is also the former director of Vicentin Omar Scale appointed by the repentant former director of the AFIP of Santa Fe, Vaudagna, as part of a maneuver to disappoint the Treasury in the case in which the federal judge of Rosario Bailaque is investigated.

The cause started in 2020 and already has a request for elevation to trial. The Prosecutor’s Office accused the former executives for organizing Vicentin’s fall in 2019 in a fraudulent manner. According to prosecutors, Vicentin came into trouble After a debt process that began years before and hidden from banks -Algunos of them, officers- who lent him money and agricultural companies that gave him grains for the collection and processing. Vicentin did not pay those grains at the timeand thus accumulated debt with its suppliers.

The agro -exporter Vicentin, in the contest of creditors for 5 years, entered into a serious situation in recent months, with serious risks to maintain the more than 1000 direct jobs which has maintained so far, despite judicial complications.

The company practically stopped receiving grains and that is why its problems were aggravated, which were reflected in arrears in the payment of the salaries of February: until now the employees received 50% of the monthly being, as it had not happened since the beginning of the default of the company, one of the largest of the Argentine agriculture.

This Wednesday, Vicentin reported that he gathered the funds to deposit 25% of the net salary and food fees. And that “according to the predictability received, on Wednesday 26 we will be able to deposit the remaining 25%, to cancel the total assets corresponding to February 2025”.