Mar del Plata.- Dismantling an organization that operated underground gambling and had a well-equipped structure Money laundering is an illegal activity Additional arrests in the past few hours to two other ringleaders and kidnapped nearly half a million dollars in cash.
The arrest was carried out by members of the National Gendarmerie in the Iguazu region of Misiones province. Two people who had been wanted since last week were reachedWhen two of his accomplices were arrested at the beginning of a series of raids.
These arrests and confiscations of funds correspond to a second phase of the so-called Operation “Rumenko Casino”, so named because the leaders were based in Rumenkow’s own neighborhoodin the southern region of Mar del Plata, where they acquired real estate, cars and motorcycles that shared a very high cost.
While the detentions were taking place at the border, in Mar del Plata, on the order of Judge Santiago Enchoste, safe deposit boxes were opened that were discovered in raids carried out by the Federal Investigation Department of the Argentine Federal Police.
She was the mother and sister of the two who were captured last week. There, $430,000 and $3,500,000 in cash were found. As confirmed by investigation sources to LA NACION newspaper.
The money was neatly packed into $10,000 bundles zipped with elastic bands.. They completed the entire interior of the safe.
The PFA’s Anti-Money Laundering and Drug Financing Operations Section, which was also part of this investigation that began about a year and a half ago, discovered the operation of underground online casinos.
The strategy they warned against was the strategy of profits that criminals funnel into the department through so-called “financial mules.” They are the people the organization resorted to to open bank accounts, deposit their income in a piecemeal way and recover it later by paying a commission to these intermediaries.
Last week, at the start of proceedings that followed a long period of silent investigation, Carrying out ten raids on different properties. Among them is the very large house owned by one of the defendants in the Rumenko neighborhood.
A large amount of money was also found there: 174,460 US dollars, 18,500 Brazilian reals, 13,720 Uruguayan pesos, 1,061,000 guarani and 2,817,600 US dollars. In addition to 30 newer generation phones and 11 computers.
In the midst of this operation, and in light of continued attempts to find one of the accused, it was confirmed that one of them was the son of a senior chief of police in Buenos Aires Province.. The official appears detached from these accusations and is surprised by his son’s involvement in this case.
The two fugitives are supposed to be between Paraguay and Brazil. There they looked for them and found them, precisely when they wanted to leave Argentina, across the Puerto Iguazu border.
Investigative sources confirmed to LA NACION that the steps that allowed this organization to be disrupted, with these four arrests, have not yet ended.. We are working on a series of activities and potential participants that will allow us to expose the work of the organization to its deepest depths.
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