2023-04-22 17:07:38
The former sports manager from San Francisco, Pablo Esser (48), received probation this Friday by order of the federal Justice, a measure that will take effect from this Sunday the 23rd.
Esser was detained for more than two and a half years in a case where he was sentenced -to four years in prison- for money laundering and drug sales. One part fulfilled it in jail and another, since December 23, 2021, with house arrest.
The request for conditional release dates from around the middle of last year and was formulated by his defense attorney Jorge Sánchez del Bianco.
Conditions
From the Federal Oral Court of Córdoba No. 1 (TOF1) they explained that this benefit arises from reports produced by the Board of Released, which speak of an “adequate and regular compliance” with the rules of house arrest by the former president of Sportivo Belgrano .
“Since the provisions of articles 13 of the Penal Code and 28 of Law 24,660 have been complied with, it is appropriate to grant the request and, therefore, grant the release of Pablo Andrés Esser as of April 23, 2023,” it was indicated.
Likewise, the following conditions were set for him: that he reside at the address that will be provided to the Court; refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages; notify the Court of their employment situation; not commit new crimes and continue to be under the supervision of the Patronage of Released Persons.
They will apply until the expiration of the sentence imposed on September 23, 2024.
The cause that put him behind bars
Pablo Esser had been declared a secondary participant criminally responsible for the crime of “trading of narcotics aggravated by the number of participants” and criminally responsible perpetrator of the crime of “asset laundering”. The sentence was four years.
The investigation that put him behind bars at least 15 months, prior to the conditional condition, was initiated in 2018 by the then surrogate federal judge of San Francisco, Pablo Montesi, and who was a federal prosecutor, Luis María Viaut (convicted of influence peddling), and ended in that first stage by the federal judge from Villa María, Roque Ramón Rebak, and the prosecutor of that jurisdiction, María Marta Schianni. The case then went to trial in May of last year.
In addition to Esser, ten other people had been sentenced for the crimes of commercialization, drug possession and money laundering of criminal origin.
The sentences ranged from three to eight years in prison, in line with what the attorney general had requested before the TOF, Maximiliano Hairabedian. While five people were acquitted.
Among those convicted are Braian Requena, who was the head of one of the factions of Sportivo’s barrabrava. He was found a co-author criminally responsible for the crime of “marketing of narcotic drugs aggravated by the number of participants.”
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