Fernando Niembro, to whom Macri gave $2.3 million for phantom services, hid proceeds in Panamá.
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Former FOX Sports Américas sportscaster and close Macri ally Fernando Niembro was linked to an offshore account in Panamá by Open Corporates, the same database that earlier this week helped identify a second Panamá shell company in President Mauricio Macri's name. The Niembro account, according to Open Corporates, was opened in 2014, is listed under his son Diego F. Niembro, and remains active.
These revelations come just days after the international money laundering scandal known as the Panama Papers named Argentine President Mauricio Macri and several family members and officials in his administration as clients in the massive Mossack Fonseca offshore shell company scheme.
The offshore company, Tres Leones SA (Three Lions, Inc.), was opened shortly after the elder Niembro registered an advertising production company in Buenos Aires, La Usina, that from 2013 to 2015 received municipal publicity contracts for 21 million pesos ($2.3 million at the time) while Macri was still mayor of Buenos Aires. La Usina, however, has no registered employees.
The La Usina scandal, which emerged in September 2015, forced Niembro to abandon his bid for a seat in Congress on Macri's right-wing PRO ticket Buenos Aires, as well as his longtime post as senior football sportscaster at Fox Sports Américas. He was charged in September with suspected money laundering, and the case remains pending.
Niembro at the time denied the charges, asserting that he proceeded "in accordance with the law" and that he was being subjected to "an undeserved lynching."
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