"Sorcerer of love": they convict an Argentinian in the United States to extort "customers" in search of a partner

SAN DIEGO (AP) .- He is Argentinian and has promised spells of love to get this much desired couple. Ariel Boiteux was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison

California,

United States,

to lead an international network that
He extorted desperate people who believed in his "powers" and paid him to do "miracles".

The convicts worked with a group of accomplices of

Paraguay

and he almost always followed the same modality: he published on the Internet advertisements in which he proposed to make magic formulas to help people find love and asked their customers to film themselves during the night. badual acts and send their videos to complete the work.

After this process, as indicated by the US authorities who conducted the case, Argentina has threatened to expose these images unless making a payment that in some cases could, according to the victim , reach $ 250,000.

Before accepting a job, the lame network investigated the victims to determine who was willing to be extorted, according to the convict's statement.

More than 200 people from different parts of the world were deceived by him and his company, Ammares Immediate, reported by the South District Federal District Prosecutor's Office.
California

Boiteaux, more than 30 years old and computer expert, was arrested last year in Paraguay, extradited to San Diego in July and pleaded guilty to extradition from abroad in December. According to what was published by the newspaper
The victims of the Los Angeles Times included nationals of countries such as the United States, Switzerland, Mexico and Spain.