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A prosecutor charged this Monday the former Argentine Minister of Health Ginés González García within the framework of the case opened by the alleged privileged access to vaccination against Covid-19 by people close to power, confirmed to Efe official sources.
The complaint was presented by the prosecutor Eduardo Taiano before the Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, in whose court a dozen complaints have been filed for the scandal of the “VIP vaccination”.
The attorney also charged the nephew of the former minister, Lisandro Bonelli, who until last Friday served as chief of staff of the health portfolio.
Judicial sources consulted by Efe They indicated that the accusation is for the alleged crimes of abuse of authority, breach of the duties of a public official and embezzlement of public funds.
The prosecutor also asked the judge to order raids at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health and the Hospital Nacional Posadas, a public hospital on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires, in order to obtain income records, security camera recordings and a list of vaccinated people.
THE SCANDAL AND THE LIST OF VACCINES
The scandal broke out last Friday, when the journalist Horace Vertbisky, 79, revealed that He was vaccinated at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health thanks to his friendship with González García.
Local media had realized this weekend that the journalist was not the only one who had privileged access to the vaccination and also targeted politicians and others close to power.
In Argentina at the moment, the vaccination of health personnel and older adults has only been enabled -in the case of Buenos Aires over 80 years old-, with shift processed online and assigned based on the availability of doses.
Given the uproar that arose on Friday, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez, He asked González García to resign and decreed his replacement by Carla Vizzotti, until then secretary of Access to Health.
Vizzotti, who took over as minister this Saturday, ordered this Monday to spread the list of those who were vaccinated at the Posadas Hospital at the request of the Ministry of Health and of those who did it in the ministerial headquarters itself, with the intervention of personnel from that hospital.
On the payroll, from 70 persons, there are “strategic” public officials -a category foreseen in the official vaccination plan-, including the head of state himself and some of his ministers.
But there is also officials of much lower hierarchy and people who do not work in the public administration, such as journalists, businessmen and political leaders of Peronism, among them the former Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde (2002-2003), in whose government González García also served as Minister of Health.
