Máximo Kirchner, the son of President Cristina Fernández and late Néstor Kirchner, has responded to media reports that accused him of having secret offshore accounts.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Máximo Kirchner denies owning offshore accounts

Máximo Kirchner speaks during a political rally.

Máximo Kirchner, the son of President Cristina Fernández and late Néstor Kirchner, has responded to media reports that accused him of having secret offshore accounts.

“Let’s make this clear: I never had and do not have any account abroad, absolutely nothing,” he said in an interview with a radio show this morning.

On Monday, Clarín newspaper and the Brazilian magazine Veja published a report saying that the also head of the La Cámpora youth political organization shared bank accounts holding millions of dollars in the United States and the Cayman Islands with ex defence minister and current Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Nilda Garré, also saying they had investments in Iran.

Rapidly echoing the news, Kirchner released a statement yesterday firmly denying the accusations considering Clarín and Veja “two monsters, not only because of the size of their companies.” “They are not only false but also ridiculous and what is worse, absolutely predictable.”

According to the La Cámpora leader, the information had been “planned” with no sources checked.

Today, Máximo Kirchner granted an interview to a radio show hosted by journalist Victor Hugo Morales considering the media versions a “dirty trick”, representing the “third part of the saga” in a series of attacks against the government, following the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

“I respect Nilda (Garré) very much, her history speaks for itself, the way she supported Néstor (Kirchner) and Cristina (Fernández de Kirchner). It is a dirty trick. It’s not checked. That is no small piece of information. We are not saying if he bought a car or not. We are talking about very sensitive issues such as nuclear energy,” the president’s son pointed out. “They are seeking to harm because they don’t understand a government that has told them to stop. They have exercised power by giving orders to presidents. That is what is hurting them.”

“It doesn’t matter if what is said is true or a lie, the aim is to make damage,” Máximo Kirchner affirmed, warning against a strategy that serves government media critics to keep in the "news covers" the report filed by Alberto Nisman before he was found dead in his Buenos Aires City apartment back in January, accusing President Fernández de Kirchner and top government officials of seeking to cover up Iran’s alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center.