Guillermo Reinwick information

Guillermo Reinwick is an Argentinian businessman who is implicated in the Boudougate scandal, which erupted in 2012.

He is the owner of a chain of cafés in Buenos Aires shopping malls, but became well known for his involvement in Boudougate. The son-in-law of one of the owners of Ciccone Calcográfica, Argentina's largest printing company, which was in deep debt and had been ordered to declare bankruptcy, Reinwick helped arrange meetings with Amado Boudou, then Minister of the Economy and later Vice President, that led to the purchase of 70% of the printing firm by a Dutch-registered company called The Old Fund, and to new government printing contracts. The Old Fund was later shown to be a shell company, and Reinwick, who had been identified as its controlling shareholder, was shown to be a front for Boudou and his business partner José María Nuñez Carmona.

In his earliest testimony in the Boudougate trial before Judge Ariel Lijo, Reinwick denied that the resurrection of the printing firm had involved any wrongdoing and that Boudou had anything to do with the firm's resurrection. In later testimony, however, Reinwick accused Boudou and Núñez Carmona of criminal activity while insisting that he himself had done nothing irregular. At first considered a witness in the trial, Reinwick was later named a defendant and charged by Lijo with bribery.