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The cause of the 70 million dollars abroad that have been laundered by Daniel Muñoz, the former private secretary of Néstor Kirchner, has just started its international chapter: Judge Claudio Bonadio ordered the arrest of three lawyers, an accountant and an investor from Miami and Turk and Caicos. Also that of a Mexican player who played the leading role so that Muñoz, his wife and his presumptive partners could hurriedly sell the 16 properties they owned in the United States and invest them in the heavenly Atlantic island.
As revealed to Infobae judicial sources, the Argentine justice seeks to Jorge De La Hoz, accountant of Muñoz in Miami, and a Anthony D & Anniello and Peter Michael Karam, the lawyers at the origin of the Turks and Caicos Islands operation that were in Argentina from July 12 to 14, 2016 with the aim of meeting in the studio of the lawyer Miguel Angel Plo, defender of Carolina Pochetti – widow of Muñoz – and currently detained.
The fourth of the suspects on whom a warrant of arrest is Charles Serfaty, a Miami lawyer – from the Biscayne Boulevard area – whom Carolina Pochetti described as the most honest person she has encountered in the process of "demolishing" her properties. "He said that he did not want to abuse my loneliness as others did," Pochetti said.
A list is added Isaac Esparza Hidalgo, a Mexican from Monterrey who, in exchange for the gambling debt of the cousin of the widow of Muñoz, signed papers making him the true owner of the companies who bought the lands of Turk and Caicos to build an emporium Hotel which has never materialized. Infobae told the story of the Mexican and his picturesque videos in which he counted money and celebrated his triumphs in the world of paris.
Payroll is completed with Sean Sullivan, an investor in charge of the resort that was going to do the work but who would have kept the money from Munoz's relatives, revealed Infobae judicial sources.
Prosecutors Carlos Stornelli and Carlos Rívolo worked on the "international leg" of Muñoz's money, with the help of the Financial Information Unit and washing specialists in the United States. The Muñoz case has become a kind of witness to the collaboration between Argentina and the United States in the fight against corruption and money laundering. February 9th Infobae revealed that there was even two aFBI members condemned to the operation and that the Argentine government hoped to recover $ 45 million.
Despite the information provided by US officials, the cause of Muñoz's money had not much advanced in the hands of Judge Luis Rodriguez, until it exploded the scandal notebooks and the former secretary of Kirchner appeared as the valijero who moved the millions that were received in the house of the recoleta of the presidential wedding of the time, in the residence of Olivos or in the room of the government. He also went south for official trips.
The role of the lawyer Miguel Ángel Plo, defender of Pochetti, was the key in the frame, depending on what could be collected in the file. The five new involved appear in the cause when, according to the repentant, Judge Rodriguez allegedly ordered Plo to sell the 16 properties that Muñoz's widow had crossed in Miami and New York. In addition, the Panama Papers scandal had already targeted the former secretary of Néstor Kirchner.
"After the death of my husband," said Pochetti, "I asked Plo that he needed a little time, that he did not want to know anything about the situation and that we had transferred everything to the justice system, told them that things would get worse for me, they said no, and they articulate quickly with (Elizabeth Ortiz) Municoy (the main frontman) selling businesses. In one of these conversations, Plo m said Mr. Rodriguez, the judge, had told us that we had to sell everything"
According to Muñoz's widow, "with these guidelines and the help of Elizabeth Ortiz Municoy, all properties have been sold. With the money deposited in the accounts, the need to create new companies appears and the option of Turks and Caicos appears. Through the Plo study, they contacted a law firm on the island, whose chief was Peter Karam, a Canadian. The shares were no longer in my name but in the name of a cousin's boyfriend. It is Isaac Esparza, the Mexican "gamer", described by his friend and cousin Pochetti, Carlos Gellert.
Ortiz Municoy, also repentant, reported that Plo decides that D & Anniello and Karam go to Argentina to meet Pochetti. He also said that she had been forced and threatened. Plo's daughter and husband were present. In fact, Plo's son-in-law, Federico Zupicich, also a lawyer and detainee, was the only one to speak English. At this meeting, it was defined what would be the "new company executive".
In this chapter, the operation is when they summoned Juan Manuel Campillo, former Minister of Finance of Santa Cruz, who, seeing what they were about to do, opened it because it seemed like a "mess". During this chain of meetings, Campillo found a friend of his school age: Serfaty's wife, one of the most sought after, had studied economics in Rosario.
"I think Serfaty did not blame me, he complained to me in a moment, but he told me he did not want to abuse my loneliness like others. He was the most honest person I know about all of this, "said Pochetti.. As he pointed out, Plo knew Serfaty before the Muñoz chapter, thanks to a former client who had had to place his holdings abroad to avoid a complicated divorce. As the woman denounced them, Plo eventually defended Serfaty and they became friends.
Carlos Gellert, Pochetti's cousin, is the person who makes Mexican esparza appear in this whole process when Muñoz was looking for a new prestanombre. "We are both players and I paid him a gambling debt. why they were looking for him. I told him that to be listed transiently in two Caribbean societieswho were my cousin's husband and accepted. With that, he recovered and paid the gambling debt that I had covered, which amounted to $ 30,000. "The Mexican is the owner of 100% of Turk and Caicos lands, had asked Aniello's lawyer to know him before signing the papers.
According to the reconstruction of the widow of Muñoz, "the starting idea was to create a hotel complex, but eventually everything was turned into buying land because the money was lost". The construction was interrupted by permits not authorized by the Turkish government. Caicos. "The investor responsible for the resort was Sullivan, who was to carry out the work. Carolina Pochetti remained on the beaches of Turk and Caicos while her lawyers defined the operation.
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