Following a complaint filed by the Federal Public Revenue Administration, the court ordered the arrest of businessman Juan Blaksley and his partner Federico Dolinkue. Both are accused of multiple crimes, including: illicit association, fraud, circulation and reinsertion in the funds market, tax evasion and fraudulent bankruptcy.
Both are now expected to be questioned in the next few hours and, eventually, prosecuted with preventive detention.
The measure was ordered by Judge María Romilda Servini de Cubría. The case was initiated from a complaint filed by the National Large Taxpayers area of the AFIP after confirming the existence of a legal and operational structure intended to fraudulently collect sums of money from savers throughout the country, outside of what is provided for in the Financial Institutions Law.
The AFIP complaint detailed a corporate network aimed, on the one hand, at attracting public savings by offering exorbitant interest rates. On the other hand, this money was sent to different companies based in tax havens, mainly in Panama.
The criminal investigation progressed without a hitch until AFIP officials detected, in April of last year, a procedural fraud maneuver that consisted of the opening of an extrajudicial preventive agreement process where the defendants, They forged documentary evidence and commercial balances from the firm HOPE FUNDS SA, to fraudulently offer a capital repayment solution to affected savers.
This irregularity was brought to the attention of the judge in the case by the AFIP and led to the seizure and general imposition of assets on Blaksley's corporate and personal assets to cover the damages caused by his maneuver and prevent new measures to conceal the illegally stolen assets and money.
Por último, la AFIP expanded the charge of tax evasion after verifying the simulation of liabilities that were recorded in the balance sheet of the firm Hope Funds with the intention of avoiding the payment of Income Tax and Value Added Tax.
This investigation extended to the entire economic group headed by Blacksley himself.
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