A former federal police officer was arrested on charges of impersonating the head of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation. Daniel Petrone, Through it, he wanted to influence a judge from Corrientes to achieve the prisoner’s freedom. He did the same thing with the police commissioner from that province.
The accused was arrested and investigated last week by a federal judge Sebastian Casanello The federal prosecutor Franco Picardi They charged him with usurpation of honor and illegal possession of a weapon because they found in his home a .380 Bersa pistol, a magazine and eight-point hollow-point ammunition for which he did not have a legal permit.
Judicial sources reported Clarion that it Fake petron He is Gustavo Omar de los Santoswith a history of fraud and usurping the names of other former public officials such as Anibal Fernandezformer Minister of Justice and former Chief of Staff, W oscar barelli, Current National Senator and former head of the Federal Intelligence Agency.
On their behalf, de los Santos contacted the courts and prisons to request detainees. He did the same by impersonating lawyers and charging fees for the efforts.
The story began on September 29 when the former police officer called the federal court in Corrientes, said he was Petroni and asked to speak with the judge. Gustavo Fresenda. He left him a cell phone and the judge called him. Petroni is the president of the Federal Court of Cassation, the country’s highest criminal court after the country’s Supreme Court of Justice, and in this role he is the president of Fresinda.
The judge answered the call and was initially not suspicious because the photo on the WhatsApp profile was of Petrone. The former police officer told Fresenda that he knew that he was a judge in the Paso de los Libre Federal Court and a deputy in Corrientes and that he would use his influence as chief of distinction to talk about the case in court and asked him about a police officer who was tried and imprisoned for drug trafficking.
The next day I called him again. Fake Petron told Fresinda about it “I would cut off heads” to his solutions and asked him if he knew the police chiefs of Corrientes to arrange the transfer of a police officer from one police station to another. That’s why he sent him police credentials via WhatsApp.
But he also asked him to revoke the house arrest of another police officer arrested on drug smuggling charges and release him. Fresinda refused and became suspicious. That’s why he called the real Petrone – they didn’t know each other – and told him about the situation. The head of the cassation filed a criminal complaint and began investigating it.
In the case, phone calls were wiretapped, and it turned out that the former police officer was speaking with his colleague who was seeking to change the place of detention. “Later Tuesday you’ll be there at 15. But look, you can’t move from there anymore. I mean, don’t break your balls anymore, right?” So he told him, according to what was published by the Fiskalis website.
But they also talked about depositing P100 million and the former police officer demanded money to manage the attempt to change the police station. He had paid him 200,000 pesos and owed him 400,000, according to the report.
He also pretended to be Petron to speak with the police station in Corrientes to request that an officer be transferred to another police station. For influence, he said that he had a relationship with the governor of the governorate. Gustavo Valdez. According to what he heard, he received 300,000 pesos for this management.
The former police officer was raided at his home in the town of General Rodriguez in Buenos Aires. There the cell phone he was posing as Petron’s was kidnapped. The photo he used as his WhatsApp profile was a photo of the Cassation Judge that was published in the Pagina/12 newspaper.
The accused was arrested and investigated. He refused to testify and apologized for the problems he caused justice. Then they imposed house arrest on him due to a health problem, and he is now awaiting the resolution of his trial.
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