More problems for "Chicho" Serna and the widow and son of Pablo Escobar – 27/11/2018

The Federal Chamber of San Martín confirmed on Tuesday the lawsuit of Mauricio "Chicho" Serna, former footballer of Boca Juniors, and the widow and son of the deceased and famous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar Gaviria, for money laundering by the through a real estate company in Pilar.

It is the same file that Mateo Corvo Dolcet, lawyer and businessman, has under house arrest.

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Serna, who last week played football in Olivos 'fifth game with Mauricio Macri, along with other officials and former football players, in preparation for the Copa Libertadores' super clbadic final in America, is accused of having participated in operations of purchase and sale of three lots in the closed quarters of Moreno and General Rodríguez, this would be linked to the money laundering of drug trafficking.

The cause, also known as the "Los Angelitos Coffee Bar", by the Buenos Aires Bar, acquired by the suspect, has as its main involvement the Colombian "farmer" José Piedrahita Ceballos, who is detained in his country, required by the American justice and warrant issued by federal judge Néstor Barral.

The widow and son of Escobar, Victoria Henao Vallejos and Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, appear in the case with the names given by the Argentine government when they accepted them as citizens of the country after the death drug trafficker in the hands of the Colombian police. It is María Isabel Santos Caballero and Juan Sebastián Marroquín Santos, respectively.

The investigating judge and his superiors of the San Martín Chamber indicated that Serna sold these properties to Piedrahita in exchange for 650,000 USD. That "authorized Piedrahita Ceballos to acquire, fifteen days later, the shares of Anexo Chile SA related to the real estate projects of companies led by Mateo Corvo Dolcet, for an amount of USD 1,100,000Marcos Marcos, Juan Pablo Salas and Marcelo Fernández unanimously declared.

According to the judicial investigation, Piedrahita is accused of having laundered $ 2.3 million of money from the sale of narcotics in Argentina. Given his situation in Colombia and the United States, it is difficult to go to court with the other defendants in the Argentina case

In their resolution, the chambers emphasized the difficulty of finding "direct evidence" in money laundering cases as they believe it to be, but they reminded national and international jurisprudence of money laundering. affirm the "indications" to prosecute those involved.

"The most important signs must be the unusual increase in wealth or the treatment of sums of money Because of their large size, transmission dynamics and financial nature, they reveal foreign operations to ordinary business practices."said the maids.

They also indicated as a sign "the lack of legitimate companies justifying the increase in badets"and" lcontrol a prior criminal activity in a generic manner allowing for the displacement of other possible origins, without it being necessary to fully demonstrate a specific criminal act, nor of its participants", according to a decision to which Clarin He had access to judicial sources.

In February of this year, the Justicia excrescended and granted to him the benefit of the house arrest to Corvo Dolcet.