Who is the mysterious businessman who helped Fabiola Yáñez settle in Spain?

Behind the residency in Spain that Fabiola Yañez recently obtained and that will allow her to continue delaying a meeting between her son Francisco and his father, former president Alberto Fernández, there is a very curious story . And it is that of the mysterious Argentine businessman who helped her obtain from the Spanish authorities a more stable stay for her and the child in Madrid.

This is about Darío Ramiro Mario Ale Iturralde , who in 2019 asked for a name change to Ramiro Iturralde Ale , and who appears on social media as Ramiro de Iturralde. He is the man who, according to the images that were spread on social media , accompanied her at the New Year's Eve dinner , on the same night of the 31st in a luxurious Mexican restaurant in Madrid and in which they were not accompanied by "Francisquito", but by another woman who appeared at a certain moment. There are those who claimed that she would be Iturralde's wife and mother of his children, but Clarín could not establish this.

On the one hand, these videos caused such a stir that they justified the Government's previous decision to leave her without guards paid by the Argentine State. On the other hand , they were part of the complaint that Alberto Fernández filed against her in the Buenos Aires courts for alleged threats - in Fabiola's early morning calls - and in which he also demands that she see Francisco.

Iturralde is a familiar man to those who made foreign policy in Argentina during the years of close relationship between the late former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Hugo Chávez , and those who closely followed the shady dealings of Chavismo with Argentina and Spain.

The “initial residence” permit that Iturralde obtained for the former first lady and the child indicates that it is for “highly qualified professionals.” And there is a supposition that reads as follows: holder of a residence permit in Spain for graduates/postgraduates from universities and business schools. It was granted by the deputy director general of Immigration and International Mobility, María Eugenia Alcantara Miralles.

In the concession of the person sponsoring the former first lady's establishment in Spain, Ramiro Iturralde Ale appears as the owner of the company Iturralde Servicios Profesionales SL . It appears to have been incorporated in May 2023 and is dedicated to accounting, bookkeeping, auditing and tax advisory activities with its registered address at Hondarribia 35, Madrid. Although it is not part of this filing, a search for who Iturralde is places him in the registry of a company based in the United Kingdom - in Wales and Scotland - known as Riverside Advisors Limited.

However, in the Capital Public Bar Association, he appears on the list of members suspended under Article 53 of Law 23,187, that is, for not paying the fees that must be paid to maintain said registration.

The businessman who settled Fabiola has several public profiles, but a search of his profile leads directly to his ties to Chavismo.

In 2018, the Spanish Police announced in a statement that they had dismantled a “ criminal network” for which they had arrested four people, including Darío Ramiro Mario Ale Iturralde.

The arrests were made at the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and by order of the 41st Court of Instruction in the capital, which was investigating Chávez's former Deputy Minister of Energy, Nervis Villalobos, for having laundered up to 1.2 billion in Spain and the United States from bribes from the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA).

The operation for which he was arrested - and later released, without Clarín knowing why he was released - was called Carabela . In that operation, 115 properties were seized for 60 million euros, including a hotel, a property in a luxury neighborhood in Marbella and several others in Salamanca, Madrid.

The Argentine businessman, who allegedly left the country for Spain in 2010, was linked by the Spanish police to the Money Flight investigation in the United States - for illegal funds from PDVSA in the United States - and Operation Carabela in Spain . He was linked to one of the companies investigated for the alleged laundering of millions of illegal funds from the Venezuelan oil company . The company was Columbus One Properties. And the mechanism was to buy properties.

Clarín was unable to contact Iturralde, but the information is in official records.

The profile of the so-called Ramiro de Iturralde on social media never ceases to attract attention. It reads “Lawyer, entrepreneur and professional investor.” He has a long saying about enjoying life and several allusions to Argentines whom he describes as “fat.” A photo of the lawyer Alejandro Fargosi ​​on the former minister Martín Guzmán and the current Secretary of Tourism and Sports, Daniel Scioli, in which they are seen misaligned, and says “How badly people dress in Argentina.” In another post from 2022 he says that Argentina is a “geopolitical joke without direction.”

In another tweet from 2020, he responded to Milei's current spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, that Axel Kicillof "is making us look bad with 90% of the planet" with a "No, because the planet does not register Argentina."

She has numerous tweets dedicated to how “badly” Argentines dress, she criticizes the press, and in one photo she talks about Alberto Fernandez as a “fool.” She describes him: “The jeans, the belly, the jacket, not being able to speak English, etc. What a shame.” In that same photo, Fabiola Yáñez can be seen.