They condemned the "sorcerer of love": he will have to spend two years in prison for having extorted 200 women

A San Diego court on Monday sentenced the "sorcerer of love" to two years in prison for extorting a US citizen with witchcraft services offered on the Internet to recover love through rituals bad. The victim did, this was recorded and he sent the video to the wizard so that he would do his magic, but far from it, with the material in his possession, he asked for it. money not to publish his intimate images on social networks.

That's Ariel Boiteux, 35, who must also pay a $ 250.00 fine. TN.com.ar revealed in November the story of the 35-year-old Argentinian who, from Asunción, had cheated, cheated and extorted between 2016 and 2017 to "200 people from Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and the United States", according to Irma Llano, prosecutor of computer crimes.

Complainant Robert Brewer said on Monday before sentencing: "This accused took advantage of the vulnerability of the lovers to humiliate and extort them." That's why he will now pay a price, "according to the release of the US Department of Justice.

For his part, David Shaw, one of the special agents who participated in the investigation, said: "I praise the dedicated work of our cybernetics experts who have worked to bring Justice to justice after taking advantage This reaffirms our commitment to fighting criminal activity across all borders, including the Internet. "

In fact, the discovery of what Boiteux did not start in the United States but in Paraguay. The prosecutor Llano informed TN.com.ar What El Brujo managed to raise $ 100,000 from the total of 200 victims.

When one of the victims denounced him in San Diego, the Southern California District Judge, Barbara Lynn Major, requested extradition in April 2018 and the Judge Warrants of Asunción , Miguel Tadeo Fernández, accepted it in June.

In December, Boiteux pleaded guilty to the prosecutor of that jurisdiction, Adam Braverman, and then signed the agreement under which he agreed to receive a two-year sentence of imprisonment and pay the fine to avoid a heavier sentence. Now a court has sentenced him to jail.