Initially, it was suspected of not paying taxes, but the investigation headed by judge Claudio Bonadio led to suspicions about a possible case of money laundering, involving the businessman Lázaro Báez as well.
Lanata revealed that Hotesur, a firm owned by the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to manage her hotels in Alto Calafate, had not paid taxes to the IGJ, nor filed the required financial statements for years.
Báez has earned hundreds of millions with infrastructure contracts signed with the Kirchners, and is suspected of money laundering at The Route of the K-Money scandal.
[1] Although Hotesur is not state-owned, their message was delivered by both media aligned with the government (such as Telam and Fútbol para todos) and the official Facebook and Twitter accounts of the presidency of the nation.
[5] The president accused Claudio Bonadio of a similar fault, claiming that he has a stake in a company that had not filed statements in due time either.
[1] Deputy Carlos Kunkel[8] and the chief of cabinet Jorge Capitanich[9] said that Bonadio was attempting a coup d'état; such conspiracy theories are usual in the Kirchnerite speech.