According to detectives’ documents, the locker was rented by Marta del Valle Santucho, who was a fugitive in the case. There were two people authorized to use it. One of them was Roberto Zuco, the syndicated brains behind an organization dedicated to operating casinos on-line trout and punished with preventive detention for the crimes of money laundering and the abuse of illegal betting. Suspecting that the chest contained money, mobile devices and documents to get closer to the gang, a raid was carried out and they were kidnapped. $2,511,953, $10,236,000, 5855 euros, a 50 gram gold bar And Jewelry.
This has been reported THE NATION qualified legal sources. The operation, requested by the federal prosecutor Santiago Marquevich, who is responsible for the investigation, was ordered by the police Morón Federal Judge Jorge Rodríguez and was carried out by personnel National Gendarmerie.
“The purpose of the measure is to confiscate cash, documents, mobile devices, storage devices and all other property elements of the organization under investigation that may be of interest to the investigation. In addition, it is intended to obtain from the said company all the movements that it has registered from its opening to the day of receipts and expenses of persons, and they must indicate: dates, entry and exit times and the individualization of the person, together with the rest of the information that appears there,” said the representative of the public prosecutor’s office in the statement where he requested the search for a company specializing in locker rentals based in Canning, Ezeiza.
Zuco and other suspects had been arrested in mid-October in raids between Canning’s lands: Terralagos, El Rebenque and Santa Juana, where the National Gendarmerie had kidnapped 60 vehicles, $120,000,000 and $20,000.
Eventually, not only the locker Del Valle Santucho rented was opened, but also six others. In the search application, public prosecutor Marquevich asked the company to provide information about whether other alleged members of the gang were customers of the company. It was thus determined that there were six additional chests associated with the suspects under investigation.
In addition to money, gold bars and jewelry, there are also employees of the Buenos Aires Squadron des National Gendarmeriewith the support of the elite Alacrán group and detectives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Investigation Departmentof the aforementioned federal security forces, confiscated documents important to the case, court sources said.
As reported at the time THE NATIONThe case began in May 2023 with the data of an informant who reported “the existence of a structured network operating under the trade name Celuapuestas and offering gambling through websites and social networks, without any official regulation.”added the sources consulted.
The investigation was assigned to U.S. Attorney’s Office Hurlinghamled by prosecutor Marquevich and Tax assistant Eduardo Suárez.
“First of all, it should be noted that the prosecutor’s in-depth investigation shows that this (case) is an emblematic case of organized economic crime, showing how technology, unbanked cash and the use of dummies can effectively combine to conceal the illicit origin of funds from an illegal betting system.” on-line. In this case, the prosecution recognized that the defendants set up and operated a secret, Internet-accessible gambling platform that operated outside of all government regulations and without tax control. The revenue generated by thousands of bettors was obtained through deposits predominantly through transfers to virtual accounts (CVU),” Judge Rodríguez said as he prosecuted Zuco and other suspects.
On the day of the raids in Terralagos, one of the suspects under investigation, identified by judicial sources as Jorge Valdivia, loaded a suitcase containing $12,000,000 into a 4×4 truck and attempted to leave, but was intercepted by the state guard after a drone used during the operation and flying over the city complex filmed the sequence.
“The accused leader of the organization was arrested in the country of Terralagos, where he was arrested at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office Judge Rodriguez “allowed the use of a drone with cameras to monitor the raids, which was useful in being able to arrest another defendant in the same private neighborhood when he was observed carrying a suitcase, later found to contain almost 12 million pesos, in a 4×4 truck, which was pursued by the members of the federal forces and intercepted at the station when he tried to leave,” the news site of the Attorney General of the Nation had explained at the time. fiscal.gob.ar.
The filing explained that it was betting (This can be roulette, slot machines and card games) Access was by invitation via “applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram or the social networks Instagram, Facebook or Internet advertising”.
In Mar del Plata
During his investigation, Valdivia claimed that the money he had in his suitcase had been won a few days earlier at the Central Casino in Mar del Plata during a trip with friends, including Zuco.
Valdivia, 48, was prosecuted because he was considered a necessary participant in the maneuvers under investigation. He was granted house arrest and his assets were seized to cover an amount of $2,000 million, according to the order signed by the judge.
Also involved in the investigation were Office of the Attorney General for Economic Crimes and Money Laundering (Procelac), responsible for the Attorney General Diego Velascoand the General Directorate of Asset Recovery and Asset Forfeiture (Dgradb) of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Maria del Carmen Chena.
The resolution, which bears the signature of Judge Rodríguez and Criminal Secretary Ignacio Calvi, states that the suspects’ actions occurred in an organized manner “with established roles” and that Zuco was one of the main leaders or organizers of this criminal enterprise and “who would give orders to the members of the organization and would mainly organize the activities related to the maneuvers of the previous crime related to the online casino.” In addition, he would be one of those who would decide on the management of assets used by the organization.”
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