Leonardo Fariña

Leonardo Farña
Born	5 October 1986 La Plata, Argentina
Occupation	accountant, personality, businessman

Leonardo Fariña (born Jorge Fariña; 5 October 1986 in La Plata) is an Argentinian who was implicated in the political scandal known as The K money trail involving entrepreneur Lázaro Báez and the Kirchner government.

Until Fariña became the target of a probe into money laundering in 2013, he was known to the Argentinian public chiefly as the husband of famous model Karina Jelinek, who separated from him after the scandal broke. Because of his high-level involvement in the money manipulations and his marriage to Jelinek, Fariña attracted a great deal of media attention and was identified as the “man most wanted by the [TV interview] programs.” The controversy swirling around both his personal and professional life caused La Nación to state that he was at the center of one of the “scandals of the year.”

As of mid 2014, Fariña is in prison awaiting trial.

Fariña grew up in a working-class neighborhood in La Plata.

He attended the University of La Plata to obtain the degree of accountant, however he dropped out. In June 2013, La Nación stated that Fariña had been “a student of accounting until three years ago,” suggesting that he had graduated in 2010.

Early in his career, he worked at Dow Agrosciences Argentina.

Due to personal connections, Fariña quickly rose to a pivotal role in the orbit of President Néstor Kirchner and businessman Lazaro Báez, playing various roles in Kirchnerite business activities and financial transactions that would later become the subject of investigation and prosecution. He was part of a circle of high-earning and high-living young men surrounding Kirchner, but was reportedly the only one who was able to “maintain his expensive tastes and expenses” after Kirchner’s death. The article described Fariña’s connection with powerful leaders as “inexplicable” to “many of those who interacted with him.” Fariña would later be described in La Nación as having been “bold and arrogant” and “unpolished” by the usual “corporate standards,” and as having exuded an air of mystery. Even as he “moved millions,” he “could owe 500 to 1000 pesos to several friends.”

Fariña opened a consulting firm named Andrómeda, but other businessmen suspected the legality of his operations, noting that Andrómeda did not have a landline phone or a corporate e-mail address. The only contact information available for the firm consisted of Fariña's own cell phone and his e-mail address at gmail.com.

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