New graft claims hit Argentina president
New graft claims hit Argentina president
By AFP 2 hours ago
Argentina lawmakers launched a fresh conflict of interest case Thursday against President Mauricio Macri, alleging airline routes were unfairly allocated to a company controlled by his family.
Opposition lawmakers filed a case in a federal court alleging that routes were allocated "in an irregular manner" to the airline Avian, one of the deputies, Rodolfo Tailhade, said on the radio.
The lawmakers say low-cost carrier Avian is controlled by the Macri Group of the conservative president's family. They allege it and another company, FlyBondi, got preferential treatment in the allocation of the routes.
"They have been allocated the majority of the routes they asked for to the detriment of Argentine Airlines," the state company, Tailhade said.
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