Wanda Nara appeared as a witness in the case in which her former lawyer Nicolás Payarola Hernayes is accused of a series of frauds. Two of the alleged victims are lawyers María Macarena Posse, daughter of former San Isidro mayor Gustavo Posse, and her partner Marcela De Leonardis, who represented the host MasterChef Celebrity in civil matters and They are asking for $600,000 after the signed employment contract has been unilaterally revoked.
“He (for Payarola Hernayes) reviewed and gave the final approval. When they sent or presented something that he did not agree with, he got angry. I don’t remember which presentation exactly, but Nicolás (for the defendant) was angry about things that were presented (by Posse and De Leonardis) without his consent. I don’t know what their agreement was because they didn’t do it in front of me. Which I always ask because I don’t like being owed anything.” “He told me that he would base his fee on what was recorded in the file,” Nara said while testifying before him. Deputy Attorney General of San Isidro, Cosme Iribarrenwho leads the investigation.
During the hearing, the businesswoman and television presenter said that she met Payarola Hernayes on the recommendation of Elian Valenzuela, popularly known as L-Gante, with whom she had a relationship.
When asked who signed the revocation of the power of attorney that authorized Posse and De Leonardis to assist them in the civil case (the claim for maintenance for their daughters after the separation from the footballer Mauro Icardi), Nara explained: “I found out because Dr. I don’t remember signing the revocation on paper, I certainly don’t remember Nicolás (Payarola Hernayes) telling me to sign this paper to the lawyers If you notice, there is no other case where so many things are not signed.
During his testimony, Nara was asked which presentations by Posse and De Leonardi’s Payarola had angered Hernayes. “I don’t know what it is, but I was angry because I said they were going to tape my signatures.”
Posse and De Leonardis are represented by former San Isidro Guarantees judge Rafael Sal Lari. More victims of lawyer José María Vera.
Icardi’s ex-wife said she learned that the agreement contained a clause requiring $600,000 to be paid if the lawyers’ presentation was revoked after a meeting (held in the Nara section of the Château Libertador building in the Núñez district of Buenos Aires) with the CEO of an important company.
“When the meeting ended, Marcela (for De Leonardis) left me a contract, an agreement on fees and conditions of her employment. I told her that I would look at it and as soon as they (Posse and her partner) left, she wrote to Nicolás (Payarola Hernayes). I don’t know if it was that day or the next. We hired her for a debt that was $90,000. At that time I wrote to him, he called me and I said him that what they showed me was impossible because it contained this clause. He told me: “Don’t worry, you don’t have to pay anything, the fees have to be paid by Mauro (Icardi) and that they would collect the fee adjustment that Justice would make.” I never spoke to Marcela (De Leonardis) and Macarena (Posse) again and he (the defendant) told me that he had revoked the fee. Sponsorship because they had put my signatures on a number of judicial documents and it would cause me problems.”
The investigation
Payarola Hernayes, 42, has been in prison since November 27th. He was arrested at his home in the Golf de Nordelta neighborhood of Tigre. He is charged with the offenses of fraud in ideal competition with fraud by improper storage, fraud by misuse of a blank signature and fraud by repeated fraudulent administration.
“They are accusing him of 11 counts of fraud,” a source involved in the operation that arrested the lawyer said at the time. One of the victims is, according to court records Juan Montiel, father of River Plate and national football team full-back.
Prosecutor Iribarren’s investigation began after a complaint from Alejandro O., one of his clients.

The complainant reported seven fraud offenses. “The defendant, who had gained the trust of his client and friend through deception, abuse of trust, theft of documents and false promises to resolve the conflict from Sergio Alejandro O., illegally obtained, for his own benefit and that of any third parties that will arise from the progress of the present investigation, an amount of approximately $63,672,107 And $64,200by not taking care of the property interests of the victim in connection with the various legal proceedings in which he was an actor, by failing to pay the money that was demanded from him in some cases,” said prosecutor Iribarren in a judgment last June, when he asked to search the lawyer’s apartment and study in Northern Delta.
The representative of the public prosecutor’s office had requested the arrest of the lawyer, but the Guarantor Judge Orlando Díaz rejected the request and only authorized the raids.
“A priori and without prejudice to the conclusions and progress of the investigation, I understand that the facts reported herein depict the crimes of Fraud ideally bankruptcy with fraud due to improper storage, fraud due to misuse of a blank signature, and fraud due to repeated fraudulent administration.”the prosecutor had said in the above-mentioned statement.
The representative of the public prosecutor’s office had also alleged that the accused lawyer “caused and caused economic and material damage to the above-mentioned Sergio Alejandro O., who had to pay in various files and proceedings to finally resolve the conflicts and claims that arose exclusively as a result of Payarola’s deceptions, in the amount of approximately the ‘whopping’ sum.” of 13,221,872.70 US dollars, 27,500 euros and 608,000 US dollars“In addition, there are embargo orders and a small bankruptcy, as can be seen from the attached documents.”