Money laundering: a repentant narco sinks the widow of Pablo Escobar Gaviria and Chicho Serna

Their defenses were based on the repeated badertion that they did not know the past of José Piedrahita Ceballos in the world of drug trafficking. That is, for them, they explained, he was simply a recognized livestock entrepreneur. But a narco who was sorry before a judge and two Argentine prosecutors abroad said that
María Isabel Santos Caballero and Sebastián Marroquín Santos, the widow and firstborn of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the mythical Boss of Evil, knew the relationship of this presumed businessman with the fearsome Cali Cartel.

In his statement, the accused collaborator also blew the former Boca Juniors player and Colombian team Mauricio Chicho Serna Valencia, claiming that he was the leader in Argentina of a lord of the Colombian drug.

"Piedrahita Ceballos and Santos Caballero participated in one of the many meetings during which the peace process was negotiated with the widow of Pablo Escobar Gaviria after the death of Patrón del Mal, in which the leaders of Cali Cartel participated. : the brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, Francisco Herrera, known as Pacho, José Santacruz, called Chepe and Efraín Hernández ", declared in the United States the repentant before the federal judge of Morón Néstor Barral, the public prosecutor Sebastián Bbado and his colleague, Diego Iglesias, who leads the Prosecutor of Narcocriminality (Procunar).

The accused collaborator was direct: "The world of drug trafficking was very small and everyone knew each other". He added: "Santos Caballero and his son were aware of Piedrahita Ceballos's relationship with the Cali cartel, because Escobar Gaviria's widow's sister is working with him."

What Santos Caballero and Marroquín Santos did not know, is that, according to the accused collaborator, Escobar Gaviria killed the brothers of Piedrahita Ceballos.

Today, as reported by the Center for Judicial Information (ICJ), Judge Barral sued Piedrahita Ceballos for the offense of laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking.

The magistrate also ordered the final seizure of 21,520 square meters of a real estate complex and 2,340 square meters of the so-called Pilar Bicentenario project (which included garages and a new Belgrano Norte station), both located at
Pilar, which was directed and marketed by Corvo Dolcet.

In the judgment in which they asked to prosecute Piadrahita Ceballos, the prosecutors Bbado, Iglesias and Mario Villar, general coordinator of the Office of the Prosecutor in charge of the fight against economic crime and money laundering (Procelac), emphasized, from the recognition of the repentant narco: The badets of Piedrahita Ceballos consist of badets produced directly or indirectly by an illegal activity, which were themselves part of an unjustified capital increase and which had been materially mixed or legally with products of lawful provenance. "

According to the statement of the alleged collaborator, Piadrahita Ceballos was at the time responsible for a laboratory capable of producing 500 kg of cocaine per day, capable of generating a profit of $ 50,000 per day of production.

Victoria Eugenia Henao Vallejo, 58, and Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, 42 (real names of the widow and son of Escobar, because the others are the identities that the Colombian government gave them in 1994, when they left this country to settle in Argentina), they are close to going to
oral and public trial accused of laundering badets from drug trafficking.

This is an investigation that began on September 1, 2016, when Procunar received a note from the DEA representative in Argentina stating that an organization dedicated to drug trafficking and money laundering had opened an investigation. Colombia had links with natural and legal persons "located in the Argentine territory". The head of the US anti-drug agency explained that "the criminal group was headed by Piedrahita Ceballos, a Colombian national, and had direct contacts in Argentina with
Corvo Dolcet. "The latter was in charge of a millionaire real estate development on the Panamericana, at the height of Pilar.

"I understand that María Isabel Santos Caballero and Juan Sebastián Marroquín Santos have made an essential contribution to the achievement of the criminal objectives of Piedrahita Ceballos," Judge Barral said during the trial of the widow and the eldest son of the Boss of Evil. this has been confirmed by the San Martín Federal Court of Appeal.

Prosecutors Bbado, Iglesias and Villar said in their opinion that Piedrahita Ceballos was "the one who fed the fraudulent funds with the entire money laundering mechanism on which we conducted our investigation". It was he who delivered the substantial item so that money laundering crime materialize, ie money obtained from wrongful acts ".

Besides the Santos Caballero, Santos Marroquín and Corvo Dolcet affair, Chicho Serna is also being prosecuted.

The repentant also complicated the defense of the contention pamphlet that was once fighting. He argued that Serna, champion with Boca of the Intercontinental Cup in 2000, was a notable man for Carlos María Aguilar, known as Rogelio. He is a former head of the Envigado office (created by Escobar Gaviria).

"Since the Oficina de Envigado, drug trafficking accounts have been managed, created by Pablo Escobar Gaviria, then [de su muerte, el 2 de diciembre de 1993] continued, "said the accused collaborator.

According to the court record, Piedrahita Ceballos was charged with placing $ 186,000 in the Argentine financial system during a direct transfer to Corvo Dolcet made on June 20, 2008 and for which he had received, in return, 14 , 75% of the shares of Anexo Chile SA.

Moreover, according to the prosecutors, the alleged narco would have put in the Argentine financial system $ 1,800,000 by giving Corvo Dolcet two real estate that Serna had previously sold to him for a fictitious amount of 930,000 USD. The operations and the injections of funds for the real estate projects of the lawyer and the Argentine businessman, according to the justice, continued several times.

About Argentinean lawyer and businessman Corvo Dolcet, the repentant narco coincided with the interpretation of the prosecutors' representatives in that he knew or suspected the activities in the world of the drug of Piedrahita Ceballos.

"
Corvo Dolcet was aware of Piedrahita Ceballos' past because he never denied it. What started to worry him [al abogado argentino] could not they sign the balance sheets of the companies ".

According to the accused collaborator, Corvo Dolcet asked Piedrahita Ceballos, after an audit of the companies set up by Pricewaterhouse, to let him know that he was going to place the Colombian shares on behalf of another person but with a counter-document.

The track on the widow and the son of Escobar Gaviria comes from the documentation removed to Corvo Dolcet during raids carried out last September in his country house Ayres del Pilar. The lawyer and businessman is 53 years old. Last October, he was tried by Judge Barral on remand for money laundering. At the beginning of the year, he was released, returned home and is controlled by means of an electronic bracelet. You can not go more than 100 kilometers from your home.

The key test

"A few days after the testimony of Corvo Dolcet [su primera declaración indagatoria] We found in the documentation sequestered at home, more specifically in a box identified "DO NOT TOUCH MATEO", an instrument in which Marroquín acknowledged having been, with his mother, who had presented Piedrahita Ceballos as investor projects that Corvo Dolcet I prosecutors, "said prosecutors Bbado, Iglesias and Procelac in an opinion they had presented before Judge Barral at the beginning of the investigation.

In the document removed, the parties declared as the first clause that the sole purpose of Mr Piedrahita's presentation was to invest in the Corvo Dolcet project and that after having created this channel, the Colombian citizen had made various investments in cash. and by the delivery of two properties. "

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