After the scandal, the luxury cars of trade unionist Marcelo Balcedo were auctioned off

Three luxury cars seized in 2018 from trade unionist Marcelo Balcedo were auctioned today in Uruguay after the scandal that occurred last March. At that time, the vehicles were awarded to a man for almost $ 500,000. However, the bidder ended up declaring that he did not actually have the money to pay them.

This afternoon, at an event attended by about sixty interested people and which took place in the ballroom of the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza hotel, a Porsche Panamera (2012), a Chevrolet Camaro 2SS ( 2014) and a Range Rover 5.0 HSE Supercharged truck were auctioned off (2016).

The Porsche was delivered for $ 81,000, after reaching $ 125,000 in March. The Camaro sold for $ 55,000, about $ 27,000 less than the last frustrated attempt. In the meantime, the truck has been auctioned for $ 78,000 (it had reached $ 133,000 in March).

As reported by the Uruguayan newspaper The country, to avoid a new role for those who are interested this time they must first present an economic deposit be able to bid on cars that They were seized in connection with a lawsuit for money laundering, trafficking in assets and weapons.

The Balcedo car auction ended in scandal a few months ago. One of the bidders who won the auction for three of these vehicles approached the auctioneers and He revealed that he did not have the money to pay the deposit, which amounted to $ 164,000. He also assured that he had tendered for the cars on behalf of a breeder in the department of Colonia. But during the hunt for the alleged perpetrator, it was not possible to find someone with enough money to cope with such a sum.

In fact, the named breeder’s daughter had to appear to testify. The woman explained that her father “is a drinker, has psychiatric problems and does not have the money to buy these cars.”

Having admitted his guilt for the crimes of which he was accused and having been convicted in Uruguay, Balcedo is currently under house arrest in a huge villa, located near the farm, since February 2021. In addition to high-end cars, he was to deliver 4,000,000 USD in cash, and guarantee the seizures of the villa “Sounión”.

The former head of the Union of Workers and Employees of Minorities and Education (SOEME) has “an intensive probation regime” which implies that during the first year he will be under “total house arrest” and in both others he will be obliged to “appear once a week” in a section and will be “forbidden to leave your home at night”, that is to say, a nightly house arrest.

The sumptuous estate where Balcedo and his wife are held is located almost three kilometers from the El Gran Chaparral farmhouse. It’s called Sounion and it has an ocean view. The mansion occupies 2172 covered square meters and is composed of a gazebo with an elevator.

In addition to having benefited from the direct debit, Balcedo recovered around 2.5 million UDS despite the fact that the federal judge of La Plata Ernesto Kreplak, had asked the Uruguayan judge María Helena Mainard not to accept the return of this money. because, according to the current investigation, it would have been the product of corrupt practices carried out in Argentina.

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