Alberto Fernandez and Patricia Bulrich face to face $ 100 million lawsuit
Sitting tomorrow afternoon; The head of Pro said the government was trying to get a local partner to collect a “return” on Pfizer vaccine purchases, and the president condemned it.
President Alberto Fernandez will personally attend tomorrow a hearing on reconciliation with Patricia Bulrich invited by Justice.In a lawsuit filed by the head of state against the owner of Pro, after he suggested that the government was trying to locate a local partner. Purchase vaccines from Pfizer Against coronavirus for Collect “Return”.
The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at 12 noon at the Civil Court Headquarters 21, located at Talkahuano 490. He was summoned by a judge. Luis SaenzReported by sources with access to the file today.
In an interview with LN + on May 24, 2021, Bulrich said: “The [ex]Health Minister Guinness Gonzalez Garcia said that “to sign a contract with Pfizer, there must be a mediator who is the same AstraZeneca, Hugo Sigman.” And Pfizer told him “Impossible: I need to be able to get the vaccine effective in a timely manner so that production does not stop.” And I will add: “There is only one explanation for this: it is called, anywhere in the world, the desire to return this vaccine.”
“Are you accusing the former minister of trying to get this vaccine back?” Asked Louis Majulus. “But I have no doubt. This vaccine is not available in Argentina because there is no talk of an Argentine who can give a part of it. “I have no doubt that it is a crime.”Said Bulrich. He later said that “the president did not know about it”. He later found that if VIP vaccination was a crime, the alleged request to “return” to Pfizer was “a hundred times worse” due to Covid-19-induced death.
The president’s request is aimed at dismissing the allegations, or paying the former security minister of Mauricio Macri’s government. If Bulrich does not back down, the lawsuit will go ahead, official sources say.
Last year both sides staged a preliminary mediation that failed to reach any agreement, hence Fernandez, who is represented by a lawyer. Gregorio Dalbon, Bullrich sued for 100 million pesos.
“The defamation in connection with the negotiations with the Pfeiffer laboratory vaccine is entering the court phase. “President Alberto Fernandez will hand over all the compensation to the Malbran Institute, as he has already said,” Dalbon said in a post on his Twitter account last June.
The reconciliation scheduled for this Tuesday is different from the previous one because it will be before the judge of the case and if the defendant does not change his position, the case will be opened for evidence.
There were statements by Bulrich Rejected At a public hearing in Congress through a press release by the Lab and its representatives.
“There has never been a claim for wrong payments or intermediaries,” said Pfizer’s manager at the time. Nicholas WalkerWhen presenting at an information meeting in the lower house.
During the hearing, Chief Executive considered Bulrich’s statements to be “facts of institutional gravity” because they were intended to sow suspicion in the then-difficult negotiations for coronavirus vaccines in the midst of a pandemic.
Source: La Nacion
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