The "Argentine Madoff" will go on trial for the biggest scam in the history of the country

The businessman Enrique Blaksley Señorans, said "the Madoff Argentine", and 16 other defendants related to the company Hope Funds SA, including some family members, were sent to trial for misleading some 300 savers. It is one of the biggest frauds in the history of the country.

The measure was pbaded by Federal Judge María Servini, who rejected the requests for dismissal of five of the defendants and partially declared closed file instruction.

In the 170-page resolution consulted by the agency Télam, the magistrate considered Blaksley Señorans, currently detained at Ezeiza Prison, co-author of the crime of scam repeated on at least 318 occasions in an ideal contest with an unauthorized collection of savings aggravated by a public offer.

In addition, there are four acts of laundering criminal badets in competition with an ideal of unlawful badociation, aggravated by its patron nature, and two facts of a criminal nature. fraudulent insolvencythat is, removing badets from their badets or reducing their value to avoid meeting their obligations.

The prosecution has also reached Blaksley's brother-in-law and the executive director of Hope Funds, Federico Dolinkué; the head of training companies abroad, Alejandro Miguel Carozzino; and the commercial director, her sister-in-law Verónica Vega. Maria Rita Blaksley and Juan Pablo Blaksley, brothers of Enrique, were also left in the same situation, to whom the judge attributed the same crimes, with the exception of being detached from their property and have considered them members of the unlawful badociationas with most of the 16 accused.

According to Servini, "Blaksley, with the collaboration of Carozzino, Dolinkue and Vega, has put in place a complex commercial structure, used both to defraud the private treasure and the national treasure."

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"This organization was set up to also allow reintegration and circulation on the financial market, thus giving legality to bad money," said the judge, noting that "a structure has been created which will "Disappointed". to countless people for billion dollar money ".

For the magistrate, Blaksley, "with the sums of money entrusted, further expanded this structure by investing in different companies and creating new companies, many of which were and are only shells," he said. that is to say companies with names and registered capital, but without any operation. "

In the beginning, the Hope Funds manager fulfilled the commitment made in the contracts and thus gained the trust of his clients, who in turn promoted the company, without knowing what was actually going on there and approached them. New interested So the mutuals were signed in pesos and dollars, depending on where the investment was headed, and a percentage of income was set, which should have been related to the fate of money, but this was often not the case.

Thus, the resources obtained were diverted to other routes, such as the personal activities of members of the Hope Funds group, at the national and international levels.

According to the investigation, the illicit badociation, which operated between 2007 and 2016, was integrated by the prosecution, which, by their role, contributed to the embezzlement, as well as by about sixty commercial companies, of which many are made up. in the United States and Panama. Other products proposed included future participations or constructions in urban developments such as Nordelta and the private district Verazul de Pilar, which could never be built.

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To achieve his goals, Blaksley was a successful businessman. He agreed to meet the popes. Francisco and Benedict XVI and organized sporting events such as tennis matches between Roger Federer and Juan Martín del Potro and the sprinter's visit Usain Bolt run against Metrobús.