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Casanello Charges Seven Insurance Firms and Ex-Olivos Administrator in Nación Seguros Probe

The decision invokes Argentina’s corporate liability statute to seize funds tied to alleged irregular state insurance commissions.

Overview

  • Federal judge Sebastián Casanello processed seven broker and intermediary companies and Hugo Daniel Rodríguez, ordering multimillion-peso asset freezes in the Causa Seguros investigation.
  • Bachellier S.A. received the largest embargo (about ARS 9.67 billion), followed by San Cristóbal Sociedad Mutual de Seguros Generales (about ARS 7.87 billion), San Germán Seguros (about ARS 6.58 billion), Héctor Martínez Sosa y Cía. (about ARS 2.87 billion), TG Broker (about ARS 2.19 billion), San Ignacio (about ARS 1.87 billion) and Bri Broker (about ARS 851 million).
  • San Germán and San Ignacio were additionally accused of active bribery, while San Cristóbal was processed for gratuities, according to the ruling’s typifications.
  • Rodríguez, the former administrator of the Presidential Residence of Olivos, was processed as a secondary participant in incompatible negotiations and as an author of breach of duties, with an embargo of roughly ARS 787,997,801.56.
  • Casanello applied Law 27.401 on corporate criminal liability, citing absent integrity programs and internal controls, and the case now proceeds to evidence review for conduct alleged between December 2019 and at least March 2024.