The corruption complaint against the former head of Highways that the courts let fall in Comodoro Py

The former director of Legal Affairs of the National Highway Administration (Vialidad), Luis Goldín , denounced a multi-million dollar corruption scheme involving the judiciary during the administration of the former head of the National Highway Administration (Vialidad Nacional) , between 2017 and 2019. According to him, the National Road Safety Agency transferred $1.3 billion to the Highway Administration for works that were never executed.

"This is a shocking case of corruption. It involves fifteen times the budget of Garrahan Hospital and is equivalent to more than 500,000 basic food baskets," Goldín said.

Luis Goldín explained that when the new administration took office in 2020, an internal audit was ordered to verify the use of the funds. The result was overwhelming: there were no work certificates , invoices , or documentation justifying the payments.

"We sent formal letters to the successful bidders, and they all agreed on the same thing: there were no requests for works. They simply weren't carried out," the former official said.

The technical team also visited the sites where infrastructure works had supposedly been planned. The findings were damning: the work was incomplete or, in most cases, nonexistent .

Despite the seriousness of the irregularities, the complaint filed by Goldín remains stalled in Comodoro Py . The case has been handed over to Judge Julián Ercolini and Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita , the same judges who intervened in the "Validad" case against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

"The difference is that Cristina is in one case, and the former head of the Highway Department, who was an official under Mauricio Macri and now has the support of Javier Milei , is in this one. This case is sleeping like a cocaine dump. No one is investigating this theft, which now exceeds $100 billion in updated amounts," Goldín denounced.

For the former official, the lack of legal action is a clear example of double standards . "There are cases that are quickly moved forward if a certain name comes up, and others that are frozen when those involved are protected by the real powers," he emphasized.

Luis Goldín demanded that the case be reopened. “We're asking for justice to move forward. It can't be that after more than five years there are no answers. This case has evidence, audits, documentation, and yet it remains paralyzed,” he concluded.