Paris, tickets and celebrations: who is the Mexican who has part of the fortune of Daniel Muñoz in his name

Isaac Esparza, Mexican citizen dedicated to the advertising of sports betting games in Monterrey, is the owner of a portion of the fortune of Daniel Muñoz, the former secretary of Néstor Kirchner, who spent about 70 million dollars abroad . What's funny is that even he does not seem to know what he's got: he continues to record his colorful videos to promote bets, where he counts the bills, announces the results of American football and celebrates his victories in front of his fans.

A Infobae Isaac Esparza told him that he did not know who Daniel Muñoz was or the characters mentioned by the Argentine press. Was his only connection with the case Carolina Pochetti's cousin, Carlos Gellert, whom I had known for 20 years playing poker in Monterrey, Mexico.

There was a gambling debt to settle and Esparza ended up signing papers without asking too much. It is these documents that made it the supposed owner of a land located on the island paradise of the Turks and Caicos Islands., where Muñoz, his wife and their partners thought to build a hotel empire that never rose. "As far as I know, there would be no counter-document relating to the property of Esparza on the companies of the Turks and Caicos Islands. He does not know what he has on his behalf "said Gellert to Argentine justice.

The story seems worthy of a film of entanglement, but was captured during the investigation led by Judge Claudio Bonadio and prosecutors Carlos Stornelli and Carlos Rívolo. He told Gellert, Pochetti's cousin, to apologize and give one of the most important contributions to this chapter of the case: the possibility of recovering the money that would have been, according to the researchers, from the notebook tape that went into Muñoz's pockets.

A "crazy about Soccer"Mexican, a key call and trouble for more money

Carlos Gellert He was born in Comodoro Rivadavia in 1981. His mother is Blanca Blanco, former wife of the governor of Santa Cruz Daniel Peralta. His cousin is the widow of Daniel Muñoz. Industrial engineer and systems, he went to live in Mexico to marry a citizen of this country. But last October, Argentine justice ordered him to stop. Friends told him that they were looking for him and he said that he wanted to come back. At a border crossing with the United States, his visa was denied and he was sent to jail for 19 days. His American lawyer recommended him to stop his extradition for his 27 years of life in Mexico, but Gellert did not want it. He arrived at Ezeiza airport on October 25 and before Bonadio denied all charges. But On January 15, after nearly two months in prison, something changed: they took him on a hot afternoon to the courts of Comodoro Py, where he asked to apologize.

There, he said he met Muñoz while he was dating his cousin and that he did not even know that he was a presidential advisor at the time. When Néstor Kirchner was still alive, Muñoz looked for the first investment abroad. He had the idea of ​​opening a restaurant in Mexico with the franchise "Locos por el Fútbol". His wife's cousin had the Mexican wife and the couple would live there after a brief stint in Argentina.

"Muñoz offers me to open a restaurant in the franchise "Locos por el Fútbol", a company in which I would contribute my work as capital and Muñoz the money. I never knew how much to invest, since he was responsible for the investment and I occupied only the operative part, "Gellert said in a statement.

Located in Monterrey, the location had between 15 and 20 employees and cost only $ 7,000 per month for rent, paid for by a Mexico City-based company that had been specifically named "Ideas del Norte", in which it was located. has the majority partner Carolina Pochetti, with 50%, and Gellert and her sister, with 25% each.

But six months after the creation of the company and despite the fact that the company "had a good projection", the secretary of Néstor Kirchner decided to change his plans. "Carlitos, I close & # 39;he said to Gellert, to the surprise of his interlocutor. "I suppose the decision was made because Muñoz wanted a quick return on the economy and that activity was not going to give him. He told me that he was going to take care of everything and that the decision to close was because he was going to start working in real estate in the United States, "he said. he told prosecutors Stornelli and Rívolo, then to Bonadio.

The change of figureheads after a separation

Without his seat and starting a new hairdressing and foodtruck business, a call from Muñoz again surprised Gellert between late 2014 and early 2015. Muñoz was looking for him because Sergio Todisco and Elizabeth Ortiz Municoy, the real estate couple that he had met at Mar del Plata and they had become their figureheads, they were separating and could no longer function as their prestanombres. "Look, in the subject I am working on, the real estate issue in the United States, there is a marriage that helps me and who is divorcing and I am alone with one of those people "said Muñoz. The one who was chosen was Ortiz Municoy.

But Gellert could not be on a subject with a visa. "Muñoz asks me if my wife, Perla Puente Resendez, could help her and I told her that I was going to consult her." Muñoz told me to make sure that it was just about signing papers and nothing more. A week or ten days or so Muñoz calls me back and, after consulting his wife, I told him that my wife was going to give him a hand. "

At that time, Muñoz told him that he was planning to invest in hotels in the Caribbean. "He said that his advisers were pulling the lines and that the business was in the Caribbean, which allowed them to make better investments, especially in the resorts. Among the advisers of Muñoz, I suppose that the lawyer (Miguel Ángel) Plo was there "Said Gellert. He designated the lawyer as the person who "made the decisions, the one who advised him".

The end of Muñoz and the new leader: the Mexican "ludópata"

In late 2015, Pochetti called Gellert to tell him that he "had bad news". "It was because Muñoz had cancer and asked me not to say anything until he told me personally, so Pochetti asked me to travel to Miami to chat. with Perla. I went to walk with Muñoz, the only two, and he confirmed me that I had cancer, that he was fighting her, and he told me again that the subject on which my I was giving her a hand, closing it, because it was necessary to invest in the Caribbean and that for the latter, I needed another favor, concretely that another person presents it to me so that it appears transiently in these new investments."he explained.

"The person I am presenting to Muñoz for inclusion in these new investments is a friend of mine, and I say that he does not know what it is and how much it is. He did it because we are both players and I paid him a gambling debt for which they were looking for him. I told him that I needed him to appear temporarily in two Caribbean societies, my cousin's husband, and he agreed. With that, he recovered and settled the gambling debt that I had covered, which amounted to $ 30,000, "said Gellert.

The elected representative calls Isaac Esparza, a Mexican living in Monterrey that he nicknamed "Maniac." "He is a player and although I have not seen him in violent situations, I think that in certain situations he may react in this way." He did not perform any specific activity other than lend his name. and it has no role in societies, those in Serfaty's power, "said Gellert. The only one who knew the Mexican was precisely Gellert. No one else

Two companies were founded, based in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Muñoz's money was invested in a holiday resort. The first transfer for the company was USD 2,500,000. "It was the investment," Pochetti told him. Esparza went to the United States with Gellert to sign the papers, although they were eventually sent by mail. "As far as I know, there would be no counter-document relating to the property of Esparza on the Turks and Caicos companies, he does not know what he has on his behalf"said the repentant.

Now justice has put it in his sights. Beyond Gellert's explanations, the name of Esparza appears in the frame and it is thought that he might have to give explanations in a short time before the Argentine courts.