2023-11-16 02:48:00
Leonardo Fariñathe former financier “regretful“in the cause of “the k money route”was surprised and detained this Wednesday in a financial cave in Belgrano that was raided by the Federal Police and Customs for alleged violation of the exchange regime.
In the place about 500 million pesos were kidnapped and it was found that Fariña had an electronic anklet onbut he had left the perimeter that had been imposed on him.
The raid was ordered by economic criminal judge Pablo Yadarola and after prevention tasks that were carried out days ago on illegal financial activity and possible money laundering schemes.
These were, according to Justice, “field tasks” around the activity of the caves. When members of the Federal Police and Customs entered an office on the fifth floor of the building, He met Fariña and three other people. The investigation of the detainees will take place on Friday.
The cave in question is located in Juramento 1475, near Avenida del Libertador, in the Belgrano neighborhood, where they were found. boxes and suitcases with wads of bills, for an amount of around 500 million.
Bad luck as a client or involved in the cave? What was Fariña doing when he was arrested?
Since then, efforts have been made to determine if Fariña is part of the currency trade, or if he was at the premises as a “client.” As a preventive measure, he was detained.
In addition to boxes and suitcases with million-dollar sums, during the raid They hijacked the phones of all those involved.
In the file that led to the raid, the alias of “El Pela” or “El Pelado”but the investigation, with the evidence gathered so far, was unable to determine whether the mention indeed corresponds to Leonardo Fariña.
In dialogue with the press, those who presented themselves as Fariña’s lawyers acknowledged that their client was wearing the electronic anklet and that he had authorization to move within a radius of 150 kilometers.
They also clarified that Fariña currently works as “financial advisor” declared before Justicewhile they highlighted that “does not work” in the raided cave.
Leonardo Fariña and “The K Money Route”
Leonardo Fariña was the first to publicly link the business of construction businessman Lázaro Báez with former president Néstor Kirchner on a television show in 2013.
In turn, in 2019 the businessman was one of the 160 people summoned to testify as witnesses in the trial against Cristina Kirchner for the Roads case. At that time, Fariña stated that “A part of Lázaro Báez’s money belongs to the Kirchners and the head of the illicit association is Cristina.”
“Lázaro Báez stated that Néstor was his friend first and that he kept money from him later. I say that he is a front man but a partner at the same time,” Fariña had assured, who had also stated that this money “exists and must be in Argentina because that volume of money is impossible to expatriate.”
The former financier turned out to be one of the convicted of money laundering in the case known as “the K money route”.
The ruling was announced in 2021 and Fariña was sentenced to five years in prison. But For his collaboration as a “repentant” he remained freealthough with an electronic anklet on, the same one he was now wearing when he was arrested.
Fariña is serving a sentence for a money laundering case in which he was tried alongside the businessman Lazarus Baez.
Al ““repentant” has one more year of house arrest left and has an electronic device placed.
However, this Wednesday he was outside his home, so Justice must determine if monitoring was not carried out, or if he had help to leave the perimeter.
In June of this year, the prosecution requested the arrest of the accused collaborator, but the defense requested that he not return to prison, and in exchange offered to make donations to homes and community centers, in compensation for the time remaining so that he can request the conditional freedom.
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