Axel Kicillof's scandal: In 2024, he inaugurated a cooperative refrigerator in Merlo that has now defrauded its suppliers from the beginning.

The exact figure is 3,999,896,660 pesos with 97 cents, that is to say almost 4 billion. It corresponds to 358 rejected checks due to lack of funds that were issued from the “Familias Argentinas” Cooperative of Work to its suppliers of livestock for the Mariano Acosta slaughterhouse to work, located in Merlo. The producers who contributed cattle to that slaughter plant suppose that the "fraud" may be much greater and have already filed complaints with the justice system. According to the Central Bank's accounting, the bounced checks accelerated since last October and everything seems to indicate that it is a planned criminal maneuver rather than the financial mishap of a group of workers grouped in a cooperative to recover a slaughterhouse that was closed for almost 20 years. In fact, there is a lot of evidence that suggests that the workers' cooperative is simply a front for the operation of a business group, which also has a link with the country's main meat guild. To close an ...