Finally this Monday it was confirmed that he was arrested Leonardo Cositorto, in the Dominican Republic. the leader of Generation Zoe he was in an apart-hotel when he was captured by Interpolduring the early morning.
The last thing the Justice of Cositorto knew is that on January 11 he had taken a flight to Panama and from there the trail was lost. The Prosecutor of Instruction of the 2nd shift, Juliana Companyscommented that the leader of Generation Zoe would have illegally entered the country where he was captured.
For two months I weighed regarding Cositorto an arrest warrant by a Córdoba prosecutor’s officewhich accuses him of repeated fraud and illicit association.
For this same reason there are 23 detaineesthe last had been an accountant. “Mr. Héctor Irimia, who is the lawyer, is the last fugitive I would have left”Companys assured. This is the former criminal and economic judge.
There is yet another cause for money laundering that is being carried out in the federal court of ariel where there was a series of raids between the pizzeria, the university, the hamburger house that Generation Zoe had.
Juliana Companys, the arrest and the future of Leonardo Cositorto
“I do not know much. The only thing I know is that Interpol has just informed me that Mr. Cositorto has been detained. We were very close, three addresses had been verified until we finally found him in an apart-hotel in the town of Julián Dolio from Dominican Republic. It is all the information I have until I can meet with my Interpol team,” confirmed Juliana Companys, the prosecutor who ordered the arrest months ago.
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Leonardo Cositorto, arrested in the Dominican Republic. (MPF)
“The number of scammed people we have is a lot and Today when I arrived, more complaints were coming in. The amounts from a lot of money to little. I don’t have a defined amount,” he explained.
About Cositorto’s operation, Companys indicated: “He deceived people for those people to invest in an unfeasible financial project, totally unfeasible. It’s your typical ponzi scam.”
Cositorto will have to be transferred to Argentina and according to Companys: “He will immediately be transferred to the Córdoba penitentiary. He has an arrest warrant for two months, he does not have the conditions to be released.”
Raids in Villa María, the beginning of the end of Generación Zoe
On Friday, February 18, 2022, the eight simultaneous raids in Villa María linked to complaints regarding Generation Zoe scams.
In addition to the headquarters, located on Avenida Alem, also other operations were carried out in private homes of some people linked to the organization. Precisely the offices of Generación Zoe remained closed for a few days.
As a result of these raids, she was arrested Gabriella Alvarez, who was charged with the alleged crime of necessary participation in fraud. In turn, the international capture of Leonardo Nelson Cositorto, Maximiliano Javier Batista, Claudia Javier Alvarez, Silvia Rosa Fermani, Silvina Veronica Abellonio, Silvio Eduardo Shamne, Ivana Analia Alvarez and Florencia Anahí Alvarez for the assumptions crimes of illicit association and fraud in the framework of a case in which three complaints are being investigated once morest the firm Generación Zoe.