The Argentine Police broke up last Tuesday a criminal organization with ramifications in the United States and Uruguay and that operated as a sect of human traffickingseveral of whose members were arrested and refused to give a judicial statement, reported the Efe news agency.
After that, the tenor Placido Domingo has been involved in this case. According to a report in the Spanish newspaper El País, the singer was “what appears to be a client” of the sexual services offered by the sect, camouflaged in a Buenos Aires yoga school.
In a series of audios, obtained following the order of the judge in charge of the investigation Ariel Lijo, a client is heard explaining how the meeting should take place.
The conversation involves a man, who would be the tenor Placido Domingoand a woman named Susana Mendelievich, alias Mendy, 75 years old. Later, she communicates with the leader of the sect and celebrates that the client, allegedly Plácido Domingo, has already “organized the matufia” [un engaño] so that “the agents do not notice”.
It should be noted that Placido Domingo He is not charged with any crime, but the media indicated that a large amount of documentation still needs to be reviewed.
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The audio has three parts: in the first, Mendy y Juan Percowiczleader of the sect arrested last Friday along with twenty other people, decide to accept the assignment of the man who makes the call.
According to the medium, Percowicz this meeting was of the utmost importance, for which he authorizes the use of the Museum, as they called a building in the center of Buenos Aires conditioned for sexual encounters.
In the second audio, it is allegedly heard Placido Domingo giving directions to Mendy.
In the last audio, Mendy calls his boss Percowicz once more.
After a year of investigation and within the framework of an operation called “sect joint-stock company“, federal agents of the DeHuman Trafficking Department of the Argentine Police 19 people were arrested, suspected of committing various crimes.
The organization is called the BA Group and, as part of its structure, it had some 170 “alumni” in Argentina and many others in USA that contributed to the group a monthly fee in foreign currency called “Ceremonial”.
In addition, the organization had another 1,500 “recruited students”, who were charged for “progressive” training, reading classes and various conferences aimed at state agencies, professional councils, non-profit organizations and the general public.
But, according to police sources, under the discourse of a philosophy that proclaimed “seeking the development of happiness”, the group recruited people to incorporate them into the organization, reduce them to servitude and, in some cases, offer them alleged medical treatment with the objective of obtaining money, influence and protection for their leaders.
With information from El País and EFE
