An Argentine judge Thursday ordered a probe into suspected irregularities in President Mauricio Macri's tax returns after the leader was named in the Panama Papers offshore accounts scandal, a source said.
"Federal judge Sebastian Casanello ordered comparative technical analyses of (Macri's) tax returns from 2013 to 2015 to see whether there are inconsistencies or data omitted concerning the real value of his assets," a judicial source who asked not to be named told AFP.
Macri, 57, was mayor of Buenos Aires at the time of those tax returns. He took over as Argentine president last December.
Documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca leaked in March showed Macri was on the boards of two offshore companies. He later declared he had $1.2 million in an account in the Bahamas.
He denied wrongdoing, but later promised to repatriate the funds from his account in the Bahamas.
In another major scandal, prosecutors brought formal corruption charges Wednesday against Jose Lopez, an ex-minister who was caught trying to hide millions of dollars of cash in a monastery, judicial sources told AFP.
Lopez, 55, served for 12 years in the cabinets of Argentina's last two presidents, Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, as the deputy minister for public works.
An Argentine judge Thursday ordered a probe into suspected irregularities in President Mauricio Macri’s tax returns after the leader was named in the Panama Papers offshore accounts scandal, a source said.
“Federal judge Sebastian Casanello ordered comparative technical analyses of (Macri’s) tax returns from 2013 to 2015 to see whether there are inconsistencies or data omitted concerning the real value of his assets,” a judicial source who asked not to be named told AFP.
Macri, 57, was mayor of Buenos Aires at the time of those tax returns. He took over as Argentine president last December.
Documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca leaked in March showed Macri was on the boards of two offshore companies. He later declared he had $1.2 million in an account in the Bahamas.
He denied wrongdoing, but later promised to repatriate the funds from his account in the Bahamas.
In another major scandal, prosecutors brought formal corruption charges Wednesday against Jose Lopez, an ex-minister who was caught trying to hide millions of dollars of cash in a monastery, judicial sources told AFP.
Lopez, 55, served for 12 years in the cabinets of Argentina’s last two presidents, Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, as the deputy minister for public works.
